Any Thoughts On This? (It's Long... I Know :-)
Taken from President Gordon B. Hinckley Standing For Something
“The health of any society, the happiness of its people, their prosperity and peace, all find their roots in the strength and stability of the family…We cannot effect a turnaround in a day or a month or a year. But with enough effort, we can begin a turnaround within a generation, and accomplish wonders within two generations- a period of time that is not very long in the history of humanity.”
10 Specific things we might do to help bring about such a turnaround:
1. Accept responsibility for our role as parents and fulfill our obligations to our children.
2. Get married and stay married.
3. Put the father back at the head of the home.
4. Recognize and value the supreme importance of mother.
5. Celebrate and treat children as our most priceless treasures.
6. Discipline and train children with love.
7. Teach values to children.
8. Teach children to work.
9. Read to and with children.
10. Pray together.
Aside from the tremendous importance we have as mothers in nurturing and teaching our children in our homes, we also have a responsibility to be a voice. The time and season to be a voice will come at different times and in different ways for all of us. I am just beginning my journey of becoming more aware of these issues and becoming a voice, even if it is only receiving weekly emails, reading articles from my computer, voting and signing petitions for the things I feel will affect my children’s future.
Sarah Brooks
United Families International is a public charity devoted to maintaining and strengthening the family as the fundamental unit of society.
Websites: www.unitedfamilies.org
“Truly, as women who care about our families in particular and about the family in general, as mothers and wives, grandmothers and sisters and aunts, we no longer have the luxury of standing by and watching what is happening all around us. It is time to stand up and be counted. The time has come to stand up, to defend, and to protect the family.”
Sheri Dew No One Can Take Your Place, Defenders of the Family
~ Creating an Atmosphere of Simplicity, Learning and Joy out of Organized Chaos ~
5 comments:
That's amazing and so true! We had a discusion in one of my classes about married teachers. Should you have to be married if you have children to be a teacher? As much as I hated to say yes, I did. 2 of the women have children with their boyfriends, have been together for several years, live together and are not married. If feel that's a bad example to small children. If they are acting as married people they just need to be married. That's how I feel. Kids need to see that unity and I feel that in today's society they totally have downplayed the importance of families. It's very sad. I hate the world we live in and strive everyday to make sure my children know right ways and wrong ways of being a family.Thanks for that!
Have you read the R.S. Society lesson Women of the Church? I gave the lesson a couple weeks ago and it was awesome! A few of President Kimball's quotes that I loved was, "No greater recognition can come to you in this world than to be known as a woman of God." "Motherhood is a holy calling, a sacted dedication for carrying out the Lord's work, a consecration and devotion to the rearing and fostering the nurturing of body, mind, and spirit of those who kept their first estate and who came to this earth for their second estate to learn and be tested and to work toward godhood...No greater honor could be given to a woman than to assist in God's divine plan." "There has never been a time in the Church when women are able to do more to show what their true role in the world can and ought to be" "We love you sisters, we have confidence in you...We are greatly heartened by your presence...in this portion of this dispensation wherein your talents and spiritual strength are so desperately needed."
I love reading your blog Sarah! You are so inspirational & uplifting...thanks for that post!
Okay...so I totally got the chills....I was reading that exact same lesson last night from Pres. Kimball & was so uplifted. It is so great to know that we as women are doing what we should be doing...being moms.
Hi Sarah! I love reading that! How are you doing? Did you have a nice Thanksgiving? I love reading your blog!
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