Pic via: I woke up early yesterday morning and went to Torrey Pines (again! I know I know, just come visit me and you’ll get why I’m there every week). I ran first, then I beached it with the good word. I was really grateful for the time alone outside to work hard and then just be.
Entry from Friday, June 10
Moroni 8:8,10,12
Verse 8: “Little children are whole, for they are not capable of committing sin.”
Verse 10: “Teach parents that they must repent and be baptized, and humble themselves as their little children, and they shall be saved with their little children.” (emphasis added)
Verse 12: “Little children are alive in Christ, even from the foundations of the world.”
I love the lesson blaring from these verses: respect your little children. They are (quite literally) perfect.
That fact gives me new eyes for my job. As I mother, I can be uplifted by the work required to keep these angels physically alive and not bogged down. I can be honored that my top clients are the purest people on earth, and that their funding comes from God and Christ — They will pay me in full for taking care of their children. I can be patient with my girls, knowing that any folly is a human development foible and not a big deal – certainly not worth my anger or withdrawal of love. I can be grateful for physical, in-my-face examples of the type of person Christ is, and the type of person He wants me to be: teachable, happy, grateful, simple, forgiving, loving. I know who I should be, can be, and want to be in watching my little girls.
I love the Book of Mormon and all that it teaches me, like these nuggets today. I just got a another parenting lesson from this gem? That amazes me.
I know He lives and that He cares about my work (I can feel it)!
