Let's Do It Again!

Toddlers can be so persistent.

Have you ever had to watch a toddler for a while?  Particularly one who wants something he should not have?  Or been playing with a toddler who is learning a new skill or doing something a little bit new?

If so, you know that repetition is pretty much a way of life for toddlers.  They can ask for candy a thousand times and seem not to be deterred in the slightest that you have said no all one thousand times.  If you are "helping" them build a tower, just as you are finishing it, they'll want to knock it over and have you "build it again."

Tonight, we were teaching Little Man about the roll of prophets in the Lord's church.  To demonstrate Jake helped Little Man build a house on a board, then he took the board out from under the house.  Of course the house fell down.  I don't think the dust had settled before Little Man exclaimed, "Let's do it again!"

Jake commented on how the Lord probably said the same thing each time He called a prophet to establish/re-establish His church.

Jake's comment made me think about how often the Lord has had to re-establish His church here upon the earth because wickedness overtook its members.

It also made me grateful God is willing to try over and over again with each of us, much like that loving parent who builds the tower over and over again.

But it also made me think about how we need to be persistent like little children in our attempts to live the gospel.  We need to have the persistence to start over when our spiritual towers fall down.  We need to have the enthusiasm to try over and over again to get something right.  And when we aren't quite perfect, hopefully we can have that youthful energy to say "Let's do it again!"