A Breakthrough

Remember we're working on some new rules around here, right? Rule #4: read two pages from the Book of Mormon (BoM) daily, as a family. In the past, we've never had a reading schedule. We'd read here and there, time permitting. If the kids were late getting to bed, scriptures would have been skipped for the day. We used to read from the Bible and then back to the BoM, back and forth with no rhyme or reason.

One way to prevent all of this vascillation was to have this black and white rule.

2 pages per day, whether the kids are mutinous before bedtime or half-asleep,

we have stuck to it.

Today is the 25th of January and we've read our 50 pages so far.

I'm impressed.

And proof that we've actually started a good habit was discovered in speaking with Madeline on Sunday...

I was filling out her "spotlight" form (each Sunday a child has things read about them in primary and the rest of the kids guess who it is) and she answered what her least favorite food was (chili), what she likes to do in the summertime (have picnics), what she wants to be when she grows up (an ice skater), and the like.

I then asked her "The best thing about my family is..." and after pondering for a moment, she replied:

"Reading scriptures before bedtime."

Out of all the things that we do together, scripture reading is it!

Again, I'm impressed.

It's not going to the zoo or playgrounds or driving thousands of miles to see the sights or having birthday parties or opening Christmas gifts or eating a special treat at Dairy Queen or any other temporal, tangible thing...

They are happy to be nourished by the Spirit.