Posted by:
Diane
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Date: November 10, 2011 07:58AM
I could have written your post. 11 years ago, I was in the RS presidency. I had 5 kids under 12. Sundays were a nightmare. I began to be depressed and start crying on Friday and took till Tuesday to get over the trauma and exhaustion. I felt like I was torturing myself and my kids.
One day, while nursing my baby in the nursing room, with my 2 year old climbing (literally) over my head, I got tired of the tantrumming 2 year and gave him a swat. I never spanked my kids, and here I was at church doing it. I sat and cried and prayed and realized that God could not possibly want me to go against all my mothering philosophies and intuition and torture my kids with 3 hours of church during all our naptimes (we had the noon-3:00 schedule, with Sac meeting last)
I felt like I had received the revelation that I was to take my children home and all take a nap. I shared this insight with a few overstressed friends and next thing I knew, there was a combined RS PH meeting about the importance of having our kids at church the whole time, and reverence and all kinds of BS.
I KNEW they were wrong and that was my first inkling that this was not a church led by God.
I researched later, but I left because it was making us all miserable, every single week.