I recieved this in an email today

I subscribe to LDS Gems. They are daily devotionals or spiritual thoughts that are sent right to my email inbox daily. I love it! Most of the time they inspire a thought or help to turn my mood around.

Today's touched me and helped me to remember why we take time out every evening for family prayer. Cameron is included in this too! Cole, Cameron and I all sit or kneel around our bed and we pray together. Cameron even folds his arms!!! It's pretty cute.

Here was today's Family Gem


Family Prayer Is Powerful and Sustaining
Posted: 08 Sep 2008 02:00 AM CDT
"The Savior told us, 'Pray in your families unto the Father, always in my name, that your wives and your children may be blessed' (3 Nephi 18:21). In our day, the Church urges us to have family prayer every night and every morning. . . ."Family prayer is a powerful and sustaining influence. During the dark days of World War II, a 500-pound bomb fell outside the little home of Brother Patey, a young father in Liverpool, England, but the bomb did not go off. His wife had died, so he was rearing his five children alone. He gathered them together at this very anxious time for family prayer. They 'all prayed . . . earnestly and when they had finished praying, the children said: "Daddy, we will be all right. We will be all right in our home tonight."" 'And so they went to bed, imagine, with that terrific bomb lying just outside the door half submerged in the ground. If it had gone off it would have destroyed probably forty or fifty houses and killed two or three hundred people. . . . " 'The next morning the . . . whole neighborhood was removed for forty-eight hours and the bomb was finally taken away. . . . " 'On the way back Brother Patey asked the foreman of the A. R. P. Squad: "Well, what did you find?"" ' "Mr. Patey, we got at the bomb outside of your door and found it ready to explode at any moment. There was nothing wrong with it. We are puzzled why it did not go off" ' (Andre K. Anastasiou, in Conference Report, Oct. 1946, 26). Miraculous things happen when families pray together."

James E. Faust, "The Lifeline of Prayer," Ensign, May 2002, 60-61

Sometimes the fight to get Cameron to cooperate doesn't seem worth it. But then I am reminded sometimes more harshly than others that the saying "A family that prays together, stays together" is true.

I am so thankful for the gift of prayer. It is comforting to be able to communicate with our Heavenly Father. To gain insight and to be given direction, those are some or the more powerful things I have received through prayer.