To My Children

God created families so that we can learn to love like he does. Being in a family does not force us to live like him, but having children like he does creates a strong bond. Our children are our creation. We are responsible for them. When we assume the responsibility to care for them, our love starts to grow. This love becomes more like God's when we are able to forgive and overlook each other's faults. As parents and grandparents, we experience God's glory as our children and grandchildren, having been taught by us, begin to choose "of their own free will" to do what we know from experience will bring them joy. We experience God's sorrow, when they exercise that free will and do something that we know from experience will bring them sorrow. But we know that without that opportunity to choose and either fall or succeed, they will never learn what they will need to know to become compassionate like our Father in Heaven.