Primary

So I’m in the Primary right now, which I really like, because some of the kids in Primary actually appreciate my humor and that’s fun. But I was thinking back to my Sundays as a kid and was fortunate enough that while I was in Primary it was held during the week, specifically on Wednesday. Sunday morning was actually Sunday School for all of us, and that meant upstairs in the old Gunnison Avenue building. In the upstairs of that old building we actually had a Sunday School room that had benches, a pulpit and a sacrament table that the Priests Quorum actually came up and blessed and passed the sacrament each week. It was the days of 2 ½ minute talks and seemed even to my young mind a whole lot more reverent than today’s children. 

Now I will admit that when it comes to promoting reverence I perhaps am not the best example. But in my current position, I have been thinking about reverence a lot lately.  I have come to conclusion that the biggest culprit to current reverence issues is actually not the children’s fault.  Yes, back in the day we had benches and I have decided that current stacking chairs in Primary rooms everywhere are to blame for the lack of reverence for children.  Think about how much more peaceful it is when kids can’t whack each other with chairs, move the chairs into each other, and how much calmer kids are when they sit on a bench versus a plastic chair.  Oh how I long for benches in our Primary room, that we don’t have to re-arrange, put up, put down, tell kids to scoot forward or back.  I know that in today’s world we are never going to have benches again, but I can always wish.