The Christensen Creed

During our family mission statement link-up for Celebrate Family I mentioned to a few of you that we didn't yet have a family mission statement.

But as I cleaned/de-cluttered my house today, I discovered these notes that I had written in 2005.  I was fairly newly married and living in DC at the time.  I was also freshly pregnant with my first child and visions of what shape my future family might take fueled my imagination whenever I wasn't working. 

To help my thoughts take form, I wrote down this family creed.  The paper behind it has an addendum that I apparently added this past January.  And the paper next to it contains a list of family traditions that I wanted to include in our life together.

I can see that at the time I valued the following principles:

*Reverence

*Cleanliness

*Education

*Service

*Marriage & family

*Jesus Christ

And I am happy to look at our lives now and realize that we do indeed still value these things, even though the existence of these documents slipped my mind over time!

PS - Enjoy the Relief Society Broadcast tonight at 8pm Eastern!

(Click here to watch it online.)