Thursday, July 18, 2013

Listening, Observing, Communicating, and Maintaining your Relationships Proper

This past unit was more about principles as we spoke about parent roles. It is very easy follow the philosophies of man. I am sharing a paragraph a day of the Family Proclamation with my friends on Facebook, and I am surprised to not have received any opposition. The doctrines described in the Family Proclamation is basically the opposite of that of the philosophy of the world. It is easy to follow the common standard that both the Husband and Wife should be working. I thought to myself, if all the mothers quit their jobs, the world would be better off as the unemployed will shrink, and the entire system of the world should be better as the mother will be able to fulfill her role better. Since according to the advice of the class, the wife should not work. If the budget is tight, don’t lust the man better off, and live within your means.
I will write of the wisdom that is should be applied in a family that I have learned recently. Listening, observing, and keeping all your relationships in life appropriate is important. I see that these are important in the wisdom given to Thomas Monson and Frances, when they were sealed by Benjamin Bowring.

“Every night kneel by the side of your bed. One night, Brother Monson, you offer the prayer, aloud, on bended knee. The next night you, Sister Monson, offer the prayer, aloud, on bended knee. I can then assure you that any misunderstanding that develops during the day will vanish as you pray. You simply can't pray together and retain any but the best of feelings toward one another.”
(Hallmarks of a Happy Home)

Keeping proper relationships will keep communication with God and your spouse pure. I don’t see any use of talking if you are not going to listen to each other, neither any use of talking if it is not in real intent within proper relations; furthermore, what is the use of talking and learning of each other, if we don’t observe what would be a higher standard of wisdom, an application of knowledge. This wisdom is important within all relationships. I am a practical person, and in my family I have seem meaningless communication, improper relationships, and no observation of communication. What is the use of communication, if you don’t mean it?
Within the wisdom given to the new young Monson eternal family unit. The three party relationship of a marriage, God, man, and wife is important to keep proper. How do we know the way to properly keep our relationship with God and our spouse proper? We need to not be fooled by the philosophies of man, and cling onto the word of God. From the wisdom of the class, I recall. Parents work together as equals not having the same roles, for the Husband should preside, provide, and protect as the wife is “primarily responsible for the nurture of their children.”
How we to keep our relationship proper with God is interesting? For the first time in my life in my life, I was impressed by the relationship that God had with a 2 engaged or soon to be engaged couples. God is the Father of every human being, an all loving, wisdom, and knowledgeable man. The couples would pray to the Father concerning a decision that they are considering, and they felt bad about it; then, in another consideration, they felt good. Another story was that a couple was driving, but they felt that continuing the road trip would not be good. When they decided to turn back, the car started breaking down. Following God’s wisdom is always good, but it seems that we are the ones that does not know how to have a proper relationship with God in prayer, service, and feasting on the word. Listening, observing, communicating, and maintaining a proper relationship seems to be what I am impressed with in this paper.

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