While Nephi and his brothers were away obtaining the brass
plates for their family’s improvement, the problems they ran into caused a
delay in their return to their parents in the wilderness. Naturally, their mother was worried, and even
distraught, fearing something had happened to her sons. Rarely do we hear women speak in the
scriptures, but Chapter 5 of 1st Nephi contains a wonderful example
of a couple working together through a problem.
Lehi’s wife, Sariah, complained to Lehi with a bold freedom of
expression. She enumerated the wrongs
she felt he had committed. As she spoke,
Lehi listened to her concerns. When she
had expressed all she felt, Lehi spoke, and Sariah listened. And rather than Lehi using his comments to
refute Sariah’s opinion, or to cause her to regret how she felt, Nephi tells us
that his father used his comments to comfort his mother. In a world so filled with harshness, it’s
nice to come across an example of a soft answer turning away wrath. (See Proverbs 15:1)
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