Faith, Forgiveness and Fun
In the middle of the seventh paragraph of The Family: A Proclamation to the World , it states, " Successful marriages and families are established and maintained on principles of faith, prayer, repentance, forgiveness, respect, love, compassion, work, and wholesome recreational activities." The first principle on that list is faith. Our family put that principle into action each week as we drove over one hundred miles round trip twice a week to church for Sunday worship and Wednesday evening activities. One hour each way in good weather and in Minnesota Fall, Spring and Winter too....when church wasn't canceled. We have been doing this for nearly ten years, often in vehicles that we were having faith in to make the trip there and back! When Madison went off to college at a non-church school instead of following Miranda and Danelle to BYU, one big check in the plus column for her was that the college was in a town that had a church building within walking distance of cam