Thursday 30 January 2014

How can God help strengthen family relationships?

One of the most important beliefs of the mormon faith is that God can strengthen family relationships.

How does this work though?

Well, it starts with the belief that families are forever, and that at death the relationships we build in this life continue. With that view, it changes how you see those who are closeist to you. Marriage is also something that can continue after death, if a couple are joined together in the temple of God.

In adition to the view that these important relationships continue after death. There are things that you can do that build these relationships stronger. Simple things such as something mormons refer to as "Family home evening" where one night per week (Usually a monday) During this evening you spend time as a family, leaving everything else out of the way. Start with a prayer and reading from the scriptures than you do stuff together to build relationships like play a board game or watch a movie together.

Other ways are regularly having meals together as a family. I find it important to think that it does not really matter how much money you spend on a person, what is important is the time you spend with them. When you lose out on time together you miss devolping a more important relationship with that person.

When Jesus Christ visited the people in The Book of Mormon, he told them to pray always over their families (2 Nephi 18:21) This to me points out just how important the family is to our savior Jesus Christ and how God wants us to involve him more in our families. and also in Genesis 12:3 God promises Abraham that all of the families of the world will be blessed through him.

The family is important and involving God more in our families will strengthen any family. The simple act of praying together, and spending a little more tim in each other's company will make a huge difference.






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