This week has been an interesting week, my cluster is in family studies so I am taking a few classes concerning the family. This week it seemed like all of my classes seemed to correlate very well together and I felt there was a message that I was supposed to learn. My family has never been the closest. I am recently married and as I am starting my own family I am really hoping to strengthen bonds and get into good habits that will hopefully carry on to when we start having children. I hope to be the best wife and mother possible, so I am doing everything that I can now to make that happen throughout my life.
My thoughts have been focusing on the family lately. I think this has a lot to do with the fact that I am a convert to the church and my husband and I were civilly married this past August. But over spring break, it had been a year since my baptism, so my husband and I were able to go to the temple together and be sealed as an eternal family. Family is the reason we are here on this earth, and our family should be the number one thing in our lives. I think the thing that I understood better this week is that just because you are sealed in the temple that does not mean that you have a golden ticket to the celestial kingdom. You still need to work hard and endure to the end in order to cash that ticket in. Preparing to strengthen my family for now and for the future is my way of showing my faith in the gospel and in the family.
We were asked at the beginning of class what we hoped to gain from this Family Relations class, and I'll admit I gave the generic answer. But now that I think about it I did take this class for a reason, and not just to get the credits I need for my degree. I honestly think that if we take the time to better understand family and the way they interact, as well as being aware of problems or situations that may arise and having some sort of plan, if only a tentative one. We will be more prepared to be better husbands and wifes and mothers and fathers. Will there still be problems, fights, situations you have no idea how to handle? Yes. However, with the knowledge and tools you gain through educating yourself, it is that much more that you have to bring to a family, and to help that family thrive. That is what I want to be for my husband and for my future children.
And gripeingly I will admit that this does fit into the learning model. ha ha. Being prepared for all situations in life is important: school, work, marriage, children, traveling. It really does apply for everything. We should all be open to the spirit and seek its guidance, but we still need to do our part in life and not wait around for us to be yelled at to finally do something, because we know that it is a still small voice that gives us the guidance we need not a drill Sargent yelling in our face (though some need that as well :)
