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Family Games/Patience

Hungry Hungry Hippos



Will it ever pop?
We played Hungry Hungry Hippos as a family with balloons.  We would try to put the balloons in a basket, sometimes only using our feet, sometimes dancing like a ballerina.  Michael thought this was the best game ever and loved the reaction of his brother's and sister's when he would take the balloons out of the basket before the game was over.

We then we had the kids pop their favorite color and waiting inside was a chore for them to do.  The only rule was that they couldn't use a pin.  I love John Derek's face!!


I have been feeling a need lately to study patience.  As I have been listening to the Mormon Channel, different episodes have again and again reminded me of the word patient.  It comes up in our finances, it comes up with our children, it comes up with understanding gospel principals, growth, heartache, and the ever present trials.  If patience is a characteristic that is needed in so many aspects of our lives I have to ask: Will we have to be patient after we die?  Does God have to show a lot of patience even when He knows the outcome?  What should I do to become more patient, and in turn become more like God?

The Guide to the scriptures defines patience as: Calm endurance; the ability to endure affliction, insult, or injury without complaint or retaliation.


 7 Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.
 8 Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil.
 9 For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the Lord, they shall inherit the earth.
 10 For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be.
 11 But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.
 12 The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth.
 13 The Lord shall laugh at him: for he seeth that his day is coming.

 We must wait patiently for the Lord and not worry about what is happening to the wicked.  To have trust in our Heavenly Father that He knows what is going to happen and He knows that the wicked will get what is coming to them.  I love that it says "The Lord shall laugh at him."  The Lord knows the truth and He knows what is going to happen and that the works of the Devil will not hold.
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