Week 7: Eternal Glasses

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After 28 years of marriage I am still learning how to be a better wife.  My husband has has patience and kindness towards my weaknesses.  While reading in Drawing Heaven Into Your Marriage by Goddard, he tells us to "Not judge but invite Christ to soften our hearts and fill us with goodness."  What a great statement. We don't try and change someone else, we change ourselves to be who we want to be with.

D&C 6:36 says, "Look unto me in every thought; doubt not, fear not."  I loved this scripture many years ago when I read it going through a tough time.  It helped me be a positive energy when my world seemed bleak.  I never used these words to look at my marriage.  If we look unto our Savior with no fear or doubt, we can overcome many dismal hardships with great attitudes and a higher understanding for the moment.  We can see our lives through our Eternal Glasses and not our mortal ones.  In our marriages this is important.  We allow Christ into our marriages so we can be blessed and lifted in our times of hardships.

As we invite Christ into our lives and look unto him and ask him to soften our hearts, we can be blessed with great marriages and families.  President Howard W Hunter taught this, "Whatever Jesus lays his hand upon lives.  If Jesus lays his hands upon a marriage it lives.  If he's allowed to lay His hands on the family it lives."    We cannot have great marriages without His participation - especially the Atonement.  We must not judge one another or doubt our marriages.  These things are of Satan who wishes us to fail miserably to be as he is.  We must honor our covenants so that God will honor us.

Turn towards your marriage, your spouse.  Find ways to connect with one another, support one another, share goals together and also your values.  Make a mission statement with one another and possibly one for your family.  Find ways to celebrate in your marriage and families to have that connection.

By connecting with your loved ones and supporting each other we can seek to understand them in Christ.  Turning towards one another with Christ on our sides can help us not doubt or fear our marriages but have a faith filled marriage.  A marriage and family where love and peace abide as we honor our covenants with our spouse and God.