We know that from the Family: A Proclamation to the world it states
" Happiness in family life is most likely to be achieved when founded upon the teachings of the Lord Jesus Christ. Successful marriages and families are established and maintained on principles of faith, prayer, repentance, forgiveness, respect, love, compassion, work, and wholesome recreational activities. "
As a family, we need to be striving together for perfection. That means we need to be holding regular family home evening, family prayer and scripture study, family meal time, and other family gatherings.
President Gordon B. Hinkley gives us some spiritual blueprints for our family and our home, he says:
We have learning to gain, work to do, service to give. We are here with a marvelous inheritance, a divine endowment. How different this world would be if every person realized that all of his actions have eternal consequences. How much more satisfying our years may be if in our accumulation of knowledge, in our relationships with others, in our business affairs, in our courtship and marriage, and in our family rearing, we recognize that we form each day the stuff of which eternity is made (from Ensign, Jan. 1994, 4).
He also states:
If we would look for the virtues in one another and not the vices, there would be much more of happiness in the homes of our people. There would be far less of divorce, much less of infidelity, much less of anger and rancor and quarreling. There would be more of forgiveness, more of love, more of peace, more of happiness. This is as the Lord would have it (from Ensign, May 1998, 51).
I recommend that all of you read this mini article by President Gordon B. Hinkley. It is really inspiring and there perfect steps to aim for an eternal happy family.
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