REMEMBER

It's time to get back to recording our lives on this blog. After a couple years break, I have decided this is the best way to do a large part of recording our family's history, especially if I print a blog book every year. So I'll be using more pictures and lots of stories. It has taken me a while to figure out if I want to do post in order or just start again. So I decided that I needed to just start with the current state of lives and do flash backs that highlight the fabulous adventures we've had the past two busy years.

REMEMBER

This is a powerful word. To remember the past builds a bond with immediate family members and extended family and with our ancestors too. Remembering helps you understand where you've been and where your going.This bond is really real! To be sealed to your family is not just something for the next live. It's for NOW too. That bond you can feel with a sibling or a cousin is real. We are really connected to each other and we belong to each other. We're part of a family. A family which is bigger than just ourselves.

I am reminded of a talk about this very subject from the October 2007 General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints by President Henry B. Eyring titled "O Remember, Remember ."  He shared why he started journaling.

"I was supposed to record for my children to read, someday in the future, how I had seen the hand of God blessing our family."

That is my goal. I want my children to be able to see the hand of God blessing our family. I want to have them remember throughout their lives what we taught them. And most importantly I want them to know this from the Book of Mormon, Helaman 5:12:

  "And now, my sons, remember, remember that it is upon the rock of our Redeemer, who is Christ, the Son of God, that ye must build your foundation; that when the devil shall send forth his mighty winds, yea, his shafts in the whirlwind, yea, when all his hail and his mighty storm shall beat upon you, it shall have no power over you to drag you down to the gulf of misery and endless wo, because of the rock upon which ye are built, which is a sure foundation, a foundation whereon if men build they cannot fall."

So I'm starting again.

With purpose and intent. 

And a lot of LOVE.

The Warnicks Fall 2013