Service

It's amazing to me how willing children are to serve and help others. Today, I was running around the house and a few stores like a chicken without a head in an attempt to get things together before we leave town. Throughout the day Ally would come jumping up to me in excitement and ask, "Mom! What can I do to help you?" I thought about her enthusiasm and I really don't think that I have that same kind of genuine interest in helping people all the time. Children are such a good example of serving. In Alma 30:9 it states, "...if he believed in God it was his privilege to serve him..." When we serve one another we are serving God.

Friendship

After school today Viana told me this story: "At recess I saw a stranger who was sad. I asked her why she was sad and she told me no one wanted to play "mom" with her, so I said I would play with her." I asked Viana what the girls name was. She told me she forgot to ask her. Then I asked her if she was in her class. She said, "No, it was just a stranger." For the rest of the day she kept telling me how she had chosen to play with this little girl when no one else would.
"When saw we thee a stranger, and took them in...Inasmuch as ye have done it unto the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me." Matt 25:38, 40

Service

This morning Viana came into my room to wake me up with this news, "Momma, I cleaned the sink in my bathroom so that daddy wouldn't have to and I picked the best toothbrush to use to scrub it and the best washcloth from the bath. Won't Daddy be happy that he won't have to clean it up?"
I want to wake up every morning with thoughts of how to improve Eric's day...even if I have to sacrifice my own toothbrush for it!