While reading BYU Magazine today I came across an article about a woman who has written many books and given many talks on being a homemaker. When asked what she would say to the women of the church if given a chance she summed everything up in a less than a minute talk. This is it.
Managing a home involves much more than keeping a house clean, organized, and attractive. These skills are important, and I've spent much of my life teaching women how to attain them, but these skills are only a means to an end. The paramount objective is to create a setting where family and friends are comfortable and happy, where there are good dinners and good times, where there is fun and laughter, where children acquire good habits and are taught life skills and how to be self-reliant and responsible, where challenges are faced by coupling temporal endeavors with eternal perspectives, where joy through gospel teaching and living prevails, where kindness and respect reign supreme, where love is strong enough to bind the family forever, and where children are nurtured toward eternal life.
If I didn't already have a family mission statement, this would be it. If all households in America lived by these words we would probably be translated as a country. Thank you, Daryl Hoole, for writing the words of my heart.
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