This morning we are a bit out of our regular
routine. I had to stay up an hour later
last night because I have a library book that is due today. I was blessed to be able to cover 100 pages
in an hour and a half by skimming and reading sections that caught my
attention. I found the answers in “Eat
to Live” that I needed, enough to know that I need to read his next book about
eating healthy for kids called “Disease-Proof you child”. I learned true principles of how to eat
healthy food and the truth about food. I
have greater motivation to eat well. I
also learned from this book a powerful way to persuade through bringing to
light the law and the consequence. He
has an amazing respect for agency and allowing others their choice. It seems he has no need to control others, as I do. I don’t
think I read the word “should” in the whole book. He lays out the law and then the
consequence. On one hand it appears he
is without feeling because he does it so logically- without emotional
persuasion (ethos) of feeling. But at
the end of the book he says he’s 100% committed to the readers success and well
being. I know he doesn’t do what he does
because of money. I know he does it
because he is living his mission and he cares.
I also realized that he is a good Doctor because he knows his greatest
calling is that of being a Father. He is
rooted in the truth and lives by it. He
does what he teaches. He is a good
man.
So being off routine, I read scriptures first with
the girls instead of personal study first.
It felt right. We are learning
the new songs for the Primary Program 2011.
These are amazing songs which direct our focus to creating Zion
I don’t know why but this morning I feel the fruit
of p. A-25. After scripture study, I
felt a happy attitude come over me and my children that we desire to ‘live
peaceably with one another’. I know
these promises are real because I see the evidence after having obeyed the
law. Some promises I still await and
trust in the Lord…
p. A20
“6. “Ye will not [have to] suffer your children
that they go hungry, or naked [either emotionally or physically]” v.14
“As my need to appear
perfect disappeared, my strict, cold, “letter of the law” brand of parenting
did also. I found myself spending far
more time loving and sharing with my children and far less time criticizing and
judging them. Their hunger four my
attention and their “nakedness” to my misdirected frustration and anger was
relived.” “
Wow! Naked emotionally, having an empty cup bring
hungry emotionally; their basic human needs unmet because of lack… I had never considered this verse in the emotional
sense, only the physical! That is so beautiful!
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