As I went visiting teaching this month, the lesson was on Nurturing through compassionate service. This lesson really touched me. I have had quite a few feelings lately about teaching our children to be more compassionate and to not be so selfish and demanding. I don’t want my children to think that everything is only about them. I want them to feel compassion towards others. So for Christmas Eve we continued a family home evening lesson that was taught about service.
Today we decided to teach our children the importance of giving rather than only receiving the gifts that we want. Our ward has been sending around emails regarding this day shelter called Corpus Christi House. So we had a family home evening lesson about people and families that don’t have the same things as we do. Some people and families are lacking a place to live, a car to take them places, and food to eat. So in order to help those that have less, we decided to give warm winter jackets and some other essentials that were needed.
I have to say that our children did very well. Paige was very concerned about the people who are at the shelter, especially the children. We took the children to the store and each one of them picked out a winter coat in their size that we could give to the shelter. We went into the shelter as a family to donate the items. Everyone was so friendly and so appreciative of the items we brought.
Our children felt so good. Then the questions started, why do they live there? Why don’t they have jobs? What do the children do? So our Christmas Eve was spent talking about how blessed we are and the things that we can do to help others.
Before our children headed off to bed to see what Christmas morning would bring. They sprinkled reigndeer food outside so that Santa would know where to find us.
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