My car was in the shop today and I took the bus to work. While waiting there a man and women, in their 20s I'd say, arrived with their young daughter and younger son. For the 5-10 minutes I was waiting it seemed that all the parents could do was criticize and chastise their children. I hurt for the children and for the family as a whole.

Why is it that the things we should love and cherish the most are treated so lightly? Why was it that these children, these gifts from God were so little valued? Where have we as a society gone that this is the daily behavior in so many families?

Let us remember Christ and how he loved little children and how He also said it would be better to be drowned than to offend a child.

Look at your children through the eyes of God, who was their Father before you were their parent. Love them even a little like He loves them, and like He loves you as well, for we are all children of God.

Maxim for Living

I just heard this maxim again on television. It was said in 2003, but bears repeating and repeating again.

From Elder Holland, Apostle in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

"No misfortune is so bad that whining about it won't make it worse."

In Ephesians 4:29-32, Paul reminds us of this as well.

Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.