Genesis 2:18

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Just as God provided a “help meet” for Adam, husbands and wives should build each other up and make each other stronger. This is also true for other family members.
One way to build each other up is to speak kindly to one another.
How do you bring love into your home by speaking kind words to your spouse and/or other family members?

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18 And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

Genesis 2:18

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We know from the scriptures that “it is not good that … man should be alone.” That is why our Heavenly Father made “an help meet for him.” The phrase help meet means “a helper suited to, worthy of, or corresponding to him.” For example, our two hands are similar to each other but not exactly the same. In fact, they are exact opposites, but they complement each other and are suited to each other. Working together, they are stronger. …
Not long ago, a faithful sister in the Church shared with me a deep concern she had been praying about for some time. Her concern was for some of the sisters in her ward. She told me how it hurt her heart to observe that they sometimes spoke disrespectfully to their husbands and about their husbands, even in front of their children. She then told me how as a young woman she had earnestly desired and prayed to find and marry a worthy priesthood holder and build a happy home with him. She had grown up in a home where her mother had “ruled the roost” and her father had cowered to her mother’s demands in order to keep peace at home. She felt that there was a better way. She had not seen it modeled in the home she grew up in, but as she prayed fervently for guidance, the Lord blessed her to know how to create a home with her husband where the Spirit would be warmly welcomed. I have been in that home and can testify it is a holy place!
Sisters and brothers, how often do we intentionally “speak kind words to each other?”

Sister Linda K. Burton

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