over the months of this year i have had a number of promptings to get our family started on a daily scripture reading regime. we've read through the children's stories for the book of mormon, the new testament, and most of the old testament, but i just kept feeling like we needed to be reading the real thing.
one morning in particular the feeling came to me again as i was praying and so i decided to talk to dev about it and really work to make it happen. dev was, of course, interested in doing it, but we both weren't exactly sure how to make it happen. reading at night was just too impossible with dev's schedule changing every day. plus, being pregnant meant i was just too tired at night. but the morning? ugh. it's hard enough to get the kids ready and to school on time let alone throw scripture reading in there too. but it was the only time we thought it would work so we set a time and began in earnest to do it.
turned out to be much easier a transition than we thought. but duh...doing things the Lord's way -- especially when following through with specific promptings -- will obviously work out somehow cause He wants/needs them to.
we've been reading for months now at 7:20 am and it's made a wonderful difference for our family. i love feeling like we are having more opportunities to speak about the Gospel in our home. i love that our kids are starting the day thinking about God, the scriptures, and what is true in this life. i love that we -- dev and i -- are both finding lessons read about in the morning coming back to us during the day. i hope that same is true for our children. and i love that the kids are getting to know that scriptures.
and so...again, we saw God. don't you see how much He wants us to succeed as families? if only we'll trust and obey.
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