N. Eldon Tanner Wrote:
I think back to when we used to kneel as a family in prayer every morning and every evening, I realize what it meant to hear our father call upon the Lord and actually talk to him, expressing his gratitude and asking for the blessings of the Lord on his crops and flocks and all our undertakings. It always gave us strength to meet temptation when we remembered that we would be reporting to the Lord at night.
Family prayer in any home will draw the family closer together and result in better feelings between father and mother, between parents and children, and between one child and another. If children pray for their parents it makes them more appreciative of their parents, and as they pray for one another, they feel closer to one another and part of each other, especially as they realize that they are talking to their Father in heaven while on their knees in family secret prayer. Then is when we forget our differences and think the best of others, and pray for their well-being and for strength to overcome our own weaknesses. There is no doubt that we are better peoples when we try to tune into the spirit of our Father in heaven so that we might communicate with him and express our desire to do his will as we pray for his blessings. ~~N. Eldon Tanner, A Year of Powerful Prayer (Salt Lake City, Deseret Book, 2013) p. 348-9
