Raising a Righteous Generation

Some Sundays you hear a talk at church and it just totally touches you. Today was one of those Sundays for me. I friend gave a fabulous talk about "raising up a righteous generation". She talked about how we need to raise the bar as a mother. That it is our responsibility to raise this little people into the righteous young men and women that we want them to be. I pondered on this topic all afternoon and even talked to Oscar about what we can do to raise the bar in our home. This couldn't have come at a better time for us.   In this world today we are bombarded. We are busy. We are SO busy. We are so busy that we can easily let things start to slide. I know this is something that I am really really struggle with. I am trying to raise a young family, but I now have a full time business too. Oh the age old dilema of work and raising children! I truly feel that there are not enough hours in the day to accomplish all of the thins I need to do. What  can I do about that though? In the talk one of the things spoken about was how reading are scriptures really can help us focus, prioritize and be better people and therefore mothers. These little people need us. We need to be the examples Heavenly Father wants us to be. 

It was so nice to take a break from the world and work today and think about re prioritizing. No I cannot stop working, nor do I want to, but their are quite a few things that I think I can do better with. Ever since I went into the hospital with the twins I feel like my days have just been crazy and it has hard to get back into the habit of personal scripture study. I used to be so good at it before I had kids, but now it is a real struggle.  I try to pick up my scriptures everyday, but normally for a power "read a couple of verses" devotional. I feel that my relationship with Heavenly Father was so much stronger when I was reading regularly. I really feel that when I am reading I am more guided in my life and that I have a clearer vision of Heavenly Father's plan for my family and I. This is my challenge for myself in raising my bar as a Mother. I am going to try to devote a good chunk of time everyday to reading my scriptures. I hope that it will help me with my impatience and help me to better manage my days. This is going to be my first small step in raising the bar as a mother. I know that Heavenly Father will bless me as I seek to grow closer to him and that doing so will make me a more patient and focused mother. I know that if I  can just make the time for him that in return he will help me to make time for everything else that I need to do. Thanks Kelly for an awesome talk, you are a great example to me and  I hope you know how much your words touched my heart today.