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| Do not suffer your children to argue . . . |
It never ceases to amaze me the way the Lord works. In our lesson yesterday, we finished King Benjamin's address, learning about those things we must do to retain a remission of our sins. My son chose the opening hymn, Love at Home.
There is an interesting story here: I remember reading in Mosiah when my children were young how King Benjamin told parents that they must not allow their children to fight and argue. Satan is the author of contention and when the family bickers, they are inviting him in. In response to that teaching, whenever my kids would bicker, I would start singing Love at Home, as loudly as I could. My kids all grew up hating that song, but it did make them stop fighting, just so I'd stop singing! That few seconds' interlude was all they needed to break the rage cycle and get them back into their thinking brains. It didn't dawn on me until this morning that what I had been doing singing to my arguing children was following King Benjamin's admonition. I don't think it has yet occurred to my son that my singing was in response to this verse. But the Lord remembers and now, so do I!
© Dr. Kathleen Rawlings Buntin Danielson, April 2020
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