Each month I change the mantel in our Family Room. The theme of the mantel is our focus for the month and usually has something to do with the month's holiday. Our Family Home Evening lessons revolve around the theme and having the month's motto posted right below the TV reminds us of our focus often.
Labor Day is the September's holiday. In August we focused on "Know what it takes" and September we focus in "DO what it takes. LABOR with all your might." The pictures on the mantel represent examples of DOING what it takes.
Beginning at the far left:
A picture of the Savior healing the blind man. The Savior not only taught what is good, He DID what was good.
- A picture "Necessary for salvation". A hole is chopped out of the ice of a lake so a woman can be baptized. Though it was a huge sacrifice, all knew what was necessary for salvation and they did what it took for the woman to receive that sacred ordinance.
Small oval frame with James 2:20 - "Faith without works is dead."
Long rectangle shaped frame with 1 Nephi 3:7 - "I will go and do the things which the Lord hath commanded..."
The Salt Lake Temple picture - where Fred and I were married. We were willing to "Do what it takes" and live our lives so we could be married there.
The resurrected Savior - The Savior DID all that was required, and He did it for us.
The Glass Containers -
