I have been working more on our family's Rule of Life. The first part of the Rule should contain a Mission Statement. The why behind all that you do, and behind how you make your decisions, and structure your time and activities. We titled our Mission Statement:
Daddy: Is the spiritual leader, having final say in all religious matters, financial matters, and community activities. He will also work his job to the best of his ability, to financially support us, and our endeavors. He is also in charge of the outside chores, and major home repairs.
Mommy: Is the planner and organizer. She will cook meals, keep the house clean, organized, and laundry; do the shopping, and scheduling; and also keep track of the finances, all to the best of her abilities.
Kids:Will obey Dad and Mom in all their decisions, will maintain their belongings in an organized way, and do their schoolwork to the best of their ability.
I pray that by reading our statement, you will be inspired to work on your own.
Our Family Promise
We are a family, and covenant community, brought together by God, for God. We will live by His commandments, and strive to allow ourselves to be perfected by Him, for Him. God wants us to be loving, kind, helpful, obedient, thoughtful, and wise in His ways. Accepting this, we have responsibilities towards each other to love one another, respect and encourage, forgive one another our faults, and to help each other to learn about, grow closer to, and learn to obey God.
This is our priority as a family. To live this way we must be disciplined in our actions and thoughts, we must determine and energize ourselves to work together towards this goal set of values and virtues.
We will show God love by putting Him first, and respecting Him. We will become wise through learning about our faith and Church, reading good books, watching good shows, and working on good community projects. We will accomplish this by obeying each other. When someone asks you to do something, picture Jesus asking you to do it for him. We will also pray together as a family, and if you can, individually. We will learn to be thoughtful, helpful and kind by working together and individually on chores, doing good deeds for each other, and others in the community.Then we go on to list our individual responsibilities.
Daddy: Is the spiritual leader, having final say in all religious matters, financial matters, and community activities. He will also work his job to the best of his ability, to financially support us, and our endeavors. He is also in charge of the outside chores, and major home repairs.
Mommy: Is the planner and organizer. She will cook meals, keep the house clean, organized, and laundry; do the shopping, and scheduling; and also keep track of the finances, all to the best of her abilities.
Kids:Will obey Dad and Mom in all their decisions, will maintain their belongings in an organized way, and do their schoolwork to the best of their ability.
I pray that by reading our statement, you will be inspired to work on your own.
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