For the last number years, the church has run a social media campaign during both Christmas and Easter focused on Christ. I always enjoy the videos and messages as they help me reflect on my relationship with the Savior and His love. This year's Easter message focused on the message #PrinceOfPeace.
The Lord continues to bless me with experiences to help me remember how dependent I am on Him. As a father, I pray that the Lord will make me more than I am so that I can be the parent He needs me to be. When I pray in the spirit of humility, acknowledging and confessing my weaknesses and pleading with the Lord that he strengthen me, I feel His spirit come.
The spirit of the Lord is the spirit of love. I pray that love be the driving force in my interactions with each of my children. As a father, I am a protector, and the best way I can protect my home is inviting the fortifying strength of the Prince of Peace.
p.s. After I wrote this post last night, we read Mosiah 4:10-12 for scripture study this morning. King Benjamin says it perfectly: "Ask in sincerity of heart that he would forgive you...and always retain in remembrance the greatness of God and your own nothingness and his goodness...and humble yourselves even in the depths of humility, calling on the name of the Lord daily...if ye do this ye shall always rejoice and be filled with the love of God."
