The last few days a few things happened which have caused me to think about my personal physical and spiritual preparedness. I have been focusing on physical preparedness, learning to grow and store my food, trying to become water and energy independent etc...our lesson in relief society was on temporal preparedness and I realized how far I still need to go...but more importantly for some reason this got me thinking about my spiritual preparedness. A couple of weeks ago I was talking with my brother in law and he was talking about a website he used to prepare his Gospel Doctrine Lessons "Step by Step Through the Book of Mormon by Alan Miner." I seemed to have interesting insight into things I'd read many times but not understood that particular way, so I went home and began to use it as a study guide. Wow.. I love it, I realize even though I am a voracious reader, I don't take the time to analyze... which seems to be the key, I need to learn to analyze what I'm reading.
Yesterday I spoke with my neighbor on our walk and she was sharing with me idea she has used in the past at Christmas to create a Christ Centered Christmas. These ideas centered around Charity and Thankfulness. Last night I began to prepare my Family Night lesson with the idea that I would focus on these themes, but as I opened the church website a featured article about the temple hit me powerfully and I knew that this would be my Family Night focus. I searched through the material and found a video about a familly and how their family history work and the temple saved their marriage and children. We watched the video and then committed to go to the temple in two Saturdays (the boys need to get their temple recommends renewed on Sunday) as a family. Macey will be old enough in about 8 months to go to and I hope to make this something our family does together. Even Trevor committed to go and seemed good with it. I feel blessed with inspiration by the Lord.
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