It seems today that there are more dysfunctional families than functional ones. So many families are broken, causing countless people to search for belonging, often in unhealthy ways. Family has always been important to Joseph and me. Now that we have started our own, it has become even more important! We don’t expect our family to be perfect; we know that’s impossible because we aren’t perfect. We just want our family to be, as Angela Thomas Guffey puts it in her book Prayers for New Mothers, “fairly functional.” We want our family to be a tight knit group that serves as a haven for each member to grow and flourish. Guffey writes a prayer in which she shares her family’s mission statement and it made us think about what our family mission statement should be. So…here is The Horton Family Mission Statement:
First and foremost, we believe that our family is created by the Lord. Therefore, we will seek the Lord and His will above all else.
We will love Jesus and one another.
We will pray together, play together, and laugh together.
We will rejoice with one another in good times and support one another in bad.
We will stick together because we know that two are better than one.
We will be honest with one another.
We will encourage one another in each endeavor.
We will give God the glory in all things.
Joseph and I pray that we will always remember this mission put before us and teach our children these things!
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
Deuteronomy 6:5-7
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