{"id":10200,"date":"2014-11-20T10:40:17","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T17:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=10200"},"modified":"2014-11-20T10:52:57","modified_gmt":"2014-11-20T17:52:57","slug":"marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2014\/11\/marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week President Henry B. Eyring represented our Church at the Vatican at a colloquium discussing traditional families.<\/p>\n<p>I took notes as I listened to his 13-minute address. Despite current trends of\u00a0the breakdown of families, he explained how there is hope to make things better. It begins with individuals, living righteous principles, such as holding family prayer, and the tradition passes to the next generation and then the next, growing stronger with each generation. He spoke a great deal about his wife and how they met and how she has helped him in his life.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Pres. Henry B. Eyring (Highlights) | Humanum 2014\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ceDqz5ditH4?list=UUwmvD_-GE_rT2gNIc8h6jtA\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here are some of the words he said about his marriage:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I realize now that we grew into one, slowly lifting and shaping each other year after year. As we absorbed strength from each other, it did not diminish our personal gifts. Our differences combined as if they were designed to create a better whole. Rather than dividing us, our differences bound us together. Above all, our unique abilities allowed us to become partners with God&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, for my own thoughts on this. What have I learned about family life this week? It can be explained with a little story.<\/p>\n<p>I came home late one night this week.\u00a0I had missed dinner and family time. It makes me\u00a0sad when\u00a0I need to be away during the precious hours that we can be\u00a0home together. I felt alienated as I walked into the kitchen and saw that the dinner I had prepared was now eaten and everyone was engaged in homework and other activities. But I didn&#8217;t get far into the kitchen before Richard and Mark ran upstairs to me and welcomed me home and gave me big hugs. That made me so happy. I&#8217;m convinced that successful marriages and families are built on very simple but consistent things. In this case, it was a warm welcome home.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week President Henry B. Eyring represented our Church at the Vatican at a colloquium discussing traditional families. I took notes as I listened to his 13-minute address. Despite current trends of\u00a0the breakdown of families, he explained how there is hope to make things better. It begins with individuals, living righteous principles, such as holding &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2014\/11\/marriage\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Marriage<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,20,5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church","category-life-according-to-angela","category-marriage","category-motherhood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10201,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10200\/revisions\/10201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}