When doing some research on the Proclamation and how it came to be, I was able to find one of President Hinckley's talks. This talk is entitled, "Stand strong Against the Wiles of the World", and it introduced the The Family, A Proclamation to the World. I really enjoyed this talk. It is crazy to think that it was written back in 1995, who would have guessed it would have been so plausible for our day now in 2014. In fact, I think it fits our day and age even better now than it did back then. I think that this talk is wonderful testimony of the connection our prophets have with the Lord. Read it to your spouse and your children and have them guess when it was written, I bet they will think it is a much more modern talk.
I also thought that something great for my little family at the moment would be the memorize the whole proclamation. I think that memorizing it would help us both defend our religion and our beliefs when questions come up, and to be honest, a lot of questions from friends who are not religious have already been asked. I know that if I have the proclamation memorized to my long term memory, I will always be able to refer to it, and so I'm going to make my husband do it with me too :)
If this little guy can do it…so can we!
I also stumbled across this blog where the mother and her children were able to all memorize the Proclamation through index cards and share it with their father/husband as a christmas gift! Such a sweet idea!
Overall, we know that the Proclamation is our safe guard. We are going to need to begin utilizing it more often in our daily lives because of the current attacks on traditional marriage and family life. Tough times are coming and we need to be prepared, both adults and children. We need to work together to learn and practice correct principles that will help us get closer to our Father in Heaven!
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