Monday, August 18, 2014

Harmony in the Home

"What has helped develop greater harmony in your home?"* 

The gospel of Jesus Christ – learning it and living it – has resulted in greater harmony in our home. The change came when we actively committed to Christ, learned his gospel, and tried to live it every day. The focus becomes the other person. Love becomes more proactive and is a feeling we try to have in our home so the Spirit will be with us all the time. The gospel gives us an eternal perspective; that makes an immense difference because we’re looking far into the future. The problems, irritations, and challenges of earth life are put into perspective when we have the goal of being together forever – life with our family, Heavenly Parents, and Jesus Christ.

When you pray together multiple times a day, when you study scriptures together daily, when you attend church together, when you serve together - and do all these things because you love each other and love Christ - it’s bound to result in greater harmony in the home. It’s not a 100% guarantee but it’s a whole lot better than what we had before we made the commitment to be active disciples of Christ.

*This is one of the questions we answered in our profiles on mormon.org. Read more about that here. Click here for Joe's profile and here for mine.


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