2.351 Successful Marriages

In Matthew 5.13, Jesus calls us the salt of the earth, a bold reminder that our lives are meant to carry his flavor, his truth, and his love to the world. Join me each day to explore one verse of scripture and one thought, striving to stay full of savor and truly live as savory salt. Hello my friends.

It's great to have you with me. Today let's be anxiously engaged in a good cause and bring to pass much righteousness. A challenge from a stake president.

For me. We're reading this week the proclamation to the world on the family as well as Ether chapters 12 through 15 and Moroni chapter 1. I'm not doing any sort of particular order here with the family proclamation but this one's One that I've carried with me and just kind of observed through the years.

There's a phrase inside of here that seems to be often quoted, but it's the only, only the tail end of the sentence seems to be quoted the most. Let's take a look at it. And I don't know how to reference this now that I'm thinking about it.

Let see maybe we count the paragraphs One two three four five six Let call it paragraph seven We not going to read the whole paragraph We just going to pick a section here as if it was like a verse for the day Now you would think if we started off a sentence with successful marriages that it might perk some ears up We live in a world where marriage is one not as common as it used to be for sure And two continuing to grow around the world not just an American thing really isn on the table for some people And so if we were to paint the picture of a successful marriage perhaps this is a sentence worth Eph. Joe Herman will listen with lyrics for the sprechen помогá de losatif antes, cuando,험ñen, toqu essence, al final, trae con breed, y summará las expresiones que d Här今日は le deciré. Successful marriages and families are established and maintained on principles of faith, prayer, repentance, forgiveness, respect, love, compassion, work, and wholesome recreational activities.

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Fast forward, let's actually rewind. I had gotten home from my mission. You know I've done this before, but if I have received personal counsel from leaders in my life, I just share it with you, not to extend that counsel to you, but to share it as an example of my own life and see what it means for you.

I received counsel from my stake president when I got home from my mission and he said, look, as you are getting ready to get married and start a family, he said, that's your next priesthood responsibility. He said, you need to understand that family prayer, if it happens or doesn't happen, is on you as the father. I'll catch the connection with Wisconsin having been there.

He didn't go through this list from the proclamation, but he went through very similar principles. And he counseled me to make sure that as that principles and I might even say attributes of our Savior Jesus Christ if they existed in the home or not was going to be dependent upon me Not upon my wife not upon my kids not upon the family there It going to happen off me And I've always stuck with that. And look, we've had situations in my family as we've grown up.

We've been, you know, good at times with family home evening and not as good at times with family home evening. We have made it a priority in our lives as family to read the scriptures every night and to make sure we pray as a family together. And we do that often.

And I'm grateful for this list of principles. What a great checklist for us to use and to take into our lives to establish successful marriages and families wherever we are. My friends, I'm grateful to my family for the faith and prayer we share, for the forgiveness and respect we have for each other, the love, companion, compassion, I should say, the work and the wholesome recreational activities.

That's all for today, my friends. Lift up your hearts and rejoice. Cleave into the covenants you have made and together we will be savory salt. For more information, visit us at www.fema.org.