The Parable of the Giraffe
“Rich, what are you doing? … “No. Go play with the children.”
“That laundry’s not clean!” “Our neighbor doesn’t know how to get clothes clean!”
In South Africa one day a man was driving along the highway with two giraffes in his truck.
President Harold B. Lee taught, “Every one of us, if we would reach perfection, must [at] one time ask ourselves this question, ‘What lack I yet?’”
Feeling the security and constancy of love from a spouse, a parent, or a child is a rich blessing. Such love nurtures and sustains faith in God.
I became more and more overwhelmed with my duties as a stay-at-home mother and wife. After considerable pondering about my situation, I asked my husband for a priesthood blessing.