A Prayer for the Children
A great list of questions parents are to ask themselves! Every parent should read this entire article.
Nephi-like, might we ask ourselves what our children know? From us?
Personally? Do our children know that we love the scriptures? Do they
see us reading them and marking them and clinging to them in daily life?
Have our children ever unexpectedly opened a closed door and found us
on our knees in prayer? Have they heard us not only pray with them but also pray for
them out of nothing more than sheer parental love? Do our children know
we believe in fasting as something more than an obligatory
first-Sunday-of-the-month hardship? Do they know that we have fasted for
them and for their future on days about which they knew nothing? Do
they know we love being in the temple, not least because it provides a
bond to them that neither death nor the legions of hell can break? Do
they know we love and sustain local and general leaders, imperfect as
they are, for their willingness to accept callings they did not seek in
order to preserve a standard of righteousness they did not create? Do
those children know that we love God with all our heart and that we long
to see the face—and fall at the feet—of His Only Begotten Son? I pray
that they know this.
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