moments

There are moments that these two pictures illustrate, that I can honestly feel my love for Zach grow.  In these moments I just enjoy it.  I think about him.  The kind of dad, friend, husband, person in general, that he is and I love him.  In those moments I have such a desire for his happiness.

"moments are the molecules of eternity" (one of my favorite quotes by Elder Maxwell)

So there I was at Women's Conference the other day.  I was listening to this cute couple give counsel on how to have a marriage that is a partnership with God.
The wife told a story of when she was upset with her husband and her daughter noticed.  "why do you put up with that mom?" :)  She then said, "Eternal marriage is more important than one moment in time."
I liked that. Which is why I wrote it down, and, I then remembered the above quote.  "moments are the molecules of eternity".
So, I had a little discussion in my head about "moments".  Yes, eternal marriage is more important than one moment in time and too many of the kind of moments she mentioned are what eternity will be like.  Our everyday interactions and choices are what make up our eternity.

Perfection is not to be attained here.  Although, it is to be sought after.  So, these "off" moments where we are upset or disagree, will still happen.  If we can improve our daily moments, then we are getting to where we like the picture of eternity better and better each day.

Let us not be content at letting our moments, days, weeks, months and years, just happen.  Let's work at creating the kind of moments that we are happy to repeat again and again, forever.  Moments that we can honestly feel our love and appreciation for our spouse grow.  Let's relish in those and then when the adversarial moments happen, let's repent, forgive, show love and build on the good we can find.  Therefore, creating more moments that we are happy to repeat again.