Memoir Notes

17 November 2006

My Strut, The Primary Sacrament Meeting

Emily and I were walking to her bathroom this morning to review the mess Bradley made with some water, and I noticed she was walking differently - kind of confidently with a strut. I asked her what she was doing and she said, "Walking like you, Daddy." Cool.

Last Sunday the Primary ran the Sacrament Meeting. Melinda and I were smiling ear to ear bawling the whole time. In a few years when we have several kids in Primary, they'll have to restrain us. We later found out that there were quite a few parents in the same boat.

The Sunbeams, which includes Bradley, each had the same line, "Heavenly Father loves me." It was so moving to have each of them repeat that one after the other. The other kids said it softly or normally, but Bradley belted it out. That's my boy!

Emily (a CTR5) said, "I will be blessed as I learn and live the Beatitudes." I was so glad for her to have that line as I often ponder Christ's Sermon on the Mount and try to pattern my life after its teachings. (I remember learning that we should "Let our light so shine" in the Chapel at Camp McCall when I was 11 or 12. Most of my most memorial early spiritual experiences were there at that camp...)

11/17/2006