Sunday, August 1, 2010

Distractions

Today in relief society our President had the lesson. She talked about distractions and things that keep us from the Lord. In other words idols. You know like the internet and television and so forth. Hahah as I am blogging on the internet. But we talked about activities that are getting in the way and taking away from time with the family. The number of dinners that families actually sit and eat together have decreased as the years go by. WE ARE SO DISTRACTED. And now with the texting and facebook and things like that, we are more withdrawn and our communication skills are horrible. We need to take advantage of the little moments since we are such a busy society. My favorite was Nets. Now this is a definition that Sister Carter gave for them. Nets: Anything that entices or prevents us from following the call from Christ. And then she said one more thing that stood out. She asked, "Where are we in Lehi's vision of the tree of life?" When then were given the challenge each month to find something that keeps us in the world and come out of it. This is to help us not be distracted!

2 comments:

Winter said...

That's awesome. I can think of so many women/mothers that could benefit from that lesson. IT'S SO TRUE! It's even true for me! That's exactly why I "broke up" with FB... hahaha it was TOO BIG A DISTRACTION!!!! lol

kjera said...

haha I love how you call it a break up! that is awesome!