Love is a great happiness to humans. Philosophers have not carelessly misunderstood ordinary language; it is waiting for them with bewitchment and illusion. In the emancipation that is achieved when one is able to command a clear view of the functioning of language, everything is left, but seen to be, as it is. A house means many things to people. The ultimate beauty in the home is its emotional and spiritual wealth. It is a place of wonderful memories. And with all of these things, that house becomes a home. Many of our homes are a shrine. It is a part of our self-definition, which is why we do things like decorate our houses with beautiful patterns, embrace amazing colours to impress our company and take care of our shimmer waves green grass. A beautiful lawn is one of the most desired features in gardens all around the World. These lush, emerald green grassplots serve a great purpose of keeping the environment cool, cleaning the air, and is a public displaying of our houses as an extension of ourselves. A strong attachment to the place that we live results in greater satisfaction with our home and expectations of future stability in that place. These feelings transcend attachments to other people in the area and represent a genuine affection for the physical location itself, and the passage of time strengthens out attachment to the place we live. The home can bring spiritual growth to each member of the family. The Almighty will descend upon them as the dew from Heaven, and the Holy Ghost will be theirs. #RandolphHarris 1 of 6

Home is where the heart is and the heart always makes us feel the beauty and life and hope for the future. Because of physical surroundings play such an important role in creating a sense of meaning and organization in our lives, it is not surprising that our sense of the place we live is closely connected to our sense of who we are. Our family homes are where we should feel most comfortable in the World. It determines how we make our life decisions, shapes out attitudes, and awareness, our self-esteem. A family homes life is obviously a vital ingredient in the pursuit of a meaningful life. There are some key elements to building a peaceful home life: the relationship between the family members, the atmosphere of the home itself, and the way the home is run. When a family shares principles and values, they grow together. The home because a foundation for the family’s shared sense of purpose while providing a springboard for each member to pursue his or her own goals. In such homes, families stay up ate talking heart-to-heart about what is on their minds. Children gather around their parents to hear their stories. The whole family gets together—and not just on holidays—for evening of songs, games, and reminiscing. The home become alive with a soul, a source of energy and hope, of urgency and love. It is not the tranquility of a home that makes it peaceful; it is the life within. “The stone, which I have set up as a pillar, will be God’s house,” reports Genesis 28.22. #RandolphHarris 2 of 6

There should be sweet love in the home like a song of happiness. Beautiful melody and notes filled with joy. We make our houses even more beautiful by talking with of families about our responsibilities as good-hearted people. Parents and caregivers offer their children love, acceptance, appreciation, encouragement, and guidance. They provide the most intimate context for the nurturing and protection of children as they develop their personalities and identities and also as they mature cognitively, emotionally, and socially. Our children will grow up wo remember their home as a place of warmth and kindness, where people felt comfortable to gather and talk about things that matter to them. In all likelihood, these children will grow into adults who will create the same sort of home. Parents and caregivers make sure children are healthy and safe, equip them with skill and resources to succeed as adults, and transmit basic cultural values to them. Family rituals are also instrumental in the healthy development of children and teenagers. There is emerging evidence that good communication between family members at mealtimes is associated with reduced anxiety symptoms and better respiratory conditions. Family mealtimes also provide the settings in which to strengthen emotional connections. And the value that family places on regular mealtimes may improve nutrition habits and healthy weight in youth. “As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord,” reports Joshua 24.15. #RandolphHarris 3 of 6

Families are often the first organization to take stock of everyone’s psychological wellbeing due to their involvement in and monitoring of their children’s lives. Once a normal child’s needs are satisfied on a regular basis, he or she will become bored, no longer interested in staying at the level. There is a growth force in each of us that pushes us to reach for higher levels of motivation. As the children grows through childhood, the individual moves from being dominated by the need to learn and maintain one’s safety and security to the stage of testing out one’s abilities in a more social area. In this stage, which comes in middle childhood and early adolescence, he or she needs assurance that one has a permanent place in the family, and that his or her parents value the child. Children will spend more and more time out of the hose, as one goes to school and outside to play, but the child still needs as a base the sense that home and the family’s love are always there, whenever he or she decides to return. Many children test this out by running away, pushing parents to declare that their love is flexible and stretchable. Parents may fail to recognize that running away is a testing of the quality of their love, not a rejection of that love. During this time, a child often adopts new adults into his or her life: teachers, friends, others’ patents, playground supervisors, or scout leaders. An insecure parent faced with this situation may think he or she has failed and the child has abandoned him or her for another seemingly more competent or more loving adult. We should not be at a loss of love and departing. Honest hearts are a vast sea keep the image of the sail in your heart. #RandolphHarris 4 of 6

Our families are where we experience our biggest triumphs and our deepest vulnerabilities—and they are where we have the greatest potential to do good. Of course, if parents really are not giving enough love or feeling of belonging, the child may actually be going outside the home to satisfy those needs. However, usually this is not the motivation. A child who finds that one’s parents are threatened or angered by such testing often panics. Many a child assumes that love has a price tag on it—is subject to conditions, as in a contract. And unfortunately, there are parents who attach strings: “I will love you if you will just work hard and get good greats.” “I do not love you when you run away.” These may seem like fairly innocent comments to a parent, but they can be a real source of fear for children. The family is divine in nature and God designates it as the fundamental building block of society, both on Earth and through eternity. As such, it becomes the foundation for civilization and a sanctuary for the individual. It should be a place of social graces of loyalty, cooperation, and trust. The family is the place we learn to love ourselves and each other, to bear one another’s burdens, to find meaning in our life and to give purpose to others’ lives, and to feel the value of being part of something greater than ourselves. There is a universal desire for oneness among people—we want to belong. It is why we collaborate, support common causes, cheer for sports teams, feel nationalism. #RandolphHarris 5 of 6

The desire to belong is also why we build villages, towns, and cities. When we have a home life that reflects what we previously had in Heaven, we have more of an innate propensity to get ourselves noticed, and noticed favourably, by our kind. And a spirit of unity, devotion, and faith prevails. One evening a week, for home family recreation, improvement and enjoyment, parents and children should gather around the family hearth in social and religious communion. It furnishes an opportunity for the parents to become better acquainted with their children and for children to know and appreciate their parents. If the home evening could be a fact, under the influence of the Spirit of the Lord, at our own firesides surrounded by those whom the Lord has given unto us, and told us, particularly that we should instruct them, how many happy homes there would be where today there is sorrow and discord and distress. Great blessings come to those who carry out this responsibility. Family home evening brings many families closer to one another, and have brought a great measure of peace and harmony in many homes. We feel with our love and earnest assurances, that the Lord will grant rich blessings to all who will prayerfully and sincerely carry out this program. There is no greater legacy that parents can leave to their children than the memory and blessings of a happy, unified and loving home. Our love is shining with the Sun and Moon in our hearts. #RandolphHarris 6 of 6