Creating a Christ-Centered Home

Yesterday after church I got a little grumpy!  Kevin said something that he has said a million times before when  I find myself grumpy, " You set the tone for our family!"  I hate it when he says this, it drives me crazy, why is all the reponsibility for setting the tone on me?  Can't I have a bad day, a grumpy moment?  Then this morning I read a conference talked entitled Creating A Christ Centered Home.  As I was reading it I realized a mother really does set the tone for here family.  It is my responsibility and I shouldn't take it lightly.  I need to be more aware of the things that come out of my mouth, of the anger that may exscape my lips.  My children learn from it, they learn from everything I do or do not do.   In his talk the Elder read a poem that is as follows:

’Twas a sheep not a lamb

That strayed away in the parable Jesus told,

A grown-up sheep that strayed away

From the ninety and nine in the fold.

And why for the sheep should we seek

And earnestly hope and pray?

Because there is danger when sheep go wrong:

They lead the lambs astray.

Lambs will follow the sheep, you know,

Wherever the sheep may stray.

When sheep go wrong,

It won’t take long till the lambs are as wrong as they.

And so with the sheep we earnestly plead

For the sake of the lambs today,

For when the sheep are lost

What a terrible cost

The lambs will have to pay.⁶

 

^{I love this poem it reminds me that what road I take my children follow.  When I use bad langauage my children follow, when I talk in anger my children follow.  When I pray to my Heavenly Father my children follow, when I allow a spirit of serivce, kindness, and love in my home and heart my children follow.  What road do I want them to travel?}