Thought For The Sabbath

We visited our old church ward in American Fork this morning. It was so good to see so many familiar faces. It made me think that one day this is what heaven will be like-reuniting with friends and acquaintances forever...

A quality (some may argue a weakness), I'm not sure I've ever shared with the blogging world is my love to always know what is going on around me. As my husband puts it, "Quit staring!"

BUT, back to the Sabbath Day...



In our church, the passing of the Sacrament is a quiet event, well as quiet as it can be with us crazy Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) having so many kids per family.

It is the perfect opportunity to not only think about all the things we should be thinking about, but also if you have the right kind of seat in the chapel, you can see a lot of people...

And of course I haven't seen a lot of these people for 4+ years. I have every excuse to be looking around me and not paying attention to the 21 month old son sitting on my lap. Right?

Well, I did eventually return my wandering eyes to my son, and what I saw, should not happen from one tiny broken up piece of bread...

So as any good mother would do in this situation, I took it as a learning opportunity and firmly whispered into Joshua's 21 month old ears,

"Your cheeks should not be bulging while you eat the Sacrament bread!!!"

And then I am told by those in my family who were paying attention to our own business, that Joshua had taken not only one HANDFUL of bread, but as it was being passed to his sister, he quickly grabbed another HANDFUL.

There were a lot of people in the congregation today. They ended up having to bless some additional water to have enough for everyone-I promise though, Joshua only had one helping of the water...