Our Hearts Knit as One

My thoughts on President Eyring's talk: "Our Hearts Knit as One"

"My message is that we are doing better. Fathers and mothers are pleading for unity in their homes, and those prayers are being answered. Families are praying together night and morning."

I'm one of those mothers. I pray for my children to be united in love and peace. With the dynamics I have in my house it sometimes feels like I'm just the judge and jury and no verdic I hand down satisfies no one. It seems like I'm losing the war. I just hope that my efforts bring about the promises they are supposed to.

"He cannot grant it to us as individuals. The joy of unity He wants so much to give us is not solitary. We must seek it and qualify for it with others. It is not surprising then that God urges us to gather so that He can bless us. He wants us to gather into families. He has established classes, wards, and branches and commanded us to meet together often. In those gatherings, which God has designed for us, lies our great opportunity. We can pray and work for the unity that will bring us joy and multiply our power to serve."

It takes two to want it to have it. Unity is a plural word in this case. Our family needs to be united in our desires, our hopes, our jobs, our religion and our happiness. He wants to much to bless us, but we first have to ask and then be worthy of it. My prayer is that our family is worthy and that we partake of it.

I love this part about revelation. "Revelation is the only way we can know how to follow the will of the Lord together. It requires light from above."

As a community that is often without power I know what it is like to be in total darkness--physical that is. It isn't fun. You feel like you can't move. You have to take some time to get use to the darkness and even then you feel like you have lost your way, even in your own familiar home. And along with this darkness comes a coldness. Our power outages usually happen during the shorten day but very cold winter. It gets darn cold. That is what I think my life would be like without personal revelation from our Father. It would be dark and cold. Now if only I can empress upon my children the necessity of keeping themselves worthy to receive that personal revelation and then use it. If only.....

Speaking well of others:

Boy does my family need this part and desperately. It starts with me and trickles on down. We need to stop murmuring and muttering. We are a very sarcastic family, but sometimes we carry it too far and feelings get hurt and that leads to a lot of contention.

"Realizing that you see others in an imperfect light will make you likely to be a little more generous in what you say. In addition to that scripture, you might remember your mother saying—mine did—”If you can’t say anything good about a person, don’t say anything at all.”"

I need to read this part again and again until it is sunk deep in my heart and my behavior changes.

"I can promise you a feeling of peace and joy when you speak generously of others in the Light of Christ."

And I wonder why we don't have peace and joy in my home....

Guess I have my next FHE lesson! Do you think they will listen? Do you think we will change?