Families Can Be Together Forever

For the past 8 months now I have been trying to figure out what I need to learn that I was sentenced to a calling in Primary.  Not my favorite place to be.  I have hoped that if I figure it out I would then be released because I would have "learned what God wanted me to learn" and the reason for the this calling would be fulfilled.

But I had a tiny insight today as I sat in Sacrament meeting, willing myself to stay awake--it was so hard today!  It was testimony meeting and as others stood to share their testimonies, I thought to my self, "What would I share if I got up today?"  This is the game I play with myself to try to stay on task when I can otherwise get pretty inwardly snarky about what other people have to share.  I know.  I am a lousy excuse of what I 'd really like to be.  But this is why I play the game with myself.

Well, today I had an epiphany and I realized that my calling to teach Primary wasn't about what I needed to learn--but it was about learning that the Gospel is really very simple.  Simple enough even a child can learn it.  And the more specific simple truth I recognized was that Families are God's unit of society and what He says goes, when it comes to how families should be and work and grow.

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"I have a family here on earth.  They are so good to me.  I want to share my life with them through all eternity."

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"Our Father has a family: it's me, its you, all others too. We are His children.  He sent us here to earth, by birth to live and learn here in families. God gave us families.  To help us become what he wants us to be. This is how He shares His love, for the family is of God."

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"I am a child of God and He has sent me here, has given me an earthly home with parents, kind and dear."

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These are lyrics from just three Primary songs that talk about families being part of God's plan for us.  The middle one is the newest song we have been learning in Primary.  I struggle to sing it through when we work on it in singing time because the truth of it's message is powerful to me.  I have a testimony of that  message. 

We live and learn in families so we can become what God wants us to be.  It is one of the ways He has shown the world His love. The influence from the family is the initial foundation we gain as children.  It is what we measure all other knowledge by as we grow.  It is the model we use as we create our own families as married couples.  It is the path God gave us to return to Him again.

I don't think that this epiphany will get me released, but ti does make me feel a tiny bit better about WHY I'm there.  Maybe I need to hear the Gospel of Jesus Christ in the most basic way again to remind me of the most important points of doctrine.  And not get so hung up on the fringy bits.