I had been following the guidance of my conscience pretty faithfully and making course corrections whenever it warned me that I needed to. Most of those course corrections were eliminating the activities and the entertainment of the world from our family's life. As our oldest daughter became of age to go to school I felt a nagging at my heart that we needed to look into home-schooling - that was a test for sure! I was worried about what people would think, and worried if
our children would know how to interact socially (which all stems
from fearing man more than God). We did all sorts of research and
got everyone's opinion and decided not to home-school (against the warning of my conscience). Well, after
we sent her to public school I felt so depressed. For 6 weeks she attended public
school and for 6 weeks I knew we had made the wrong choice. I
finally got up the courage to be obedient and talked with my husband
about it, we decided to take her out of public school and that very
moment the weight of
depression left and so much happiness flooded in. That night I awoke
in the middle of the night with ideas coming to me of important
things I should teach my children. I knew that Heavenly Father was
blessing me for being obedient.
It was at this time that I had a dream one night that I was walking quickly, holding hands with my two young daughters and rushing them to make it to our destination. I had no idea where we were going but we were surrounded by other parents hurrying their children to come see this great sight. There were parents and children way ahead of us, all around us, and behind us as well. We were a great group moving forward in the same direction. Finally we came to a large gathering and the girls and I pushed our way through the crowd to see this attraction. I realized with alarm that we were standing at the very edge of a huge waterfall, we were at the top and there were no safety railings in place. The mist from the waterfall covered all the rocks that we were standing on making them wet and slippery. I pulled my girls back quickly and backed away looking at the parents who stood visiting with one another laughing and completely at ease with their children playing at the very edge of this cliff on all the slippery rocks. I couldn't understand why all of us parents had brought our children here. I continued to back away taking my girls with me and then I woke up. I knew the dream meant that Heavenly Father was helping me see the danger of following the traditions of our society that have become more and more corrupt over time.
It was at this time that I had a dream one night that I was walking quickly, holding hands with my two young daughters and rushing them to make it to our destination. I had no idea where we were going but we were surrounded by other parents hurrying their children to come see this great sight. There were parents and children way ahead of us, all around us, and behind us as well. We were a great group moving forward in the same direction. Finally we came to a large gathering and the girls and I pushed our way through the crowd to see this attraction. I realized with alarm that we were standing at the very edge of a huge waterfall, we were at the top and there were no safety railings in place. The mist from the waterfall covered all the rocks that we were standing on making them wet and slippery. I pulled my girls back quickly and backed away looking at the parents who stood visiting with one another laughing and completely at ease with their children playing at the very edge of this cliff on all the slippery rocks. I couldn't understand why all of us parents had brought our children here. I continued to back away taking my girls with me and then I woke up. I knew the dream meant that Heavenly Father was helping me see the danger of following the traditions of our society that have become more and more corrupt over time.
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