Welcome to my new blog. Instead of writing pretend talks and keeping them to myself I thought I'd throw my thoughts out into the blogosphere. These posts will also give me credit for a religion course I'm taking online. (Hence the pretend talks.) So it's a win-win. Depending on if you like my writing I guess.
This week on Digging Deeper, a collection of short clips gathered together, there were three that stuck out to me in particular.
The first was a scripture from Isaiah and Micah that President Hinckley spoke in reference to the temple. "Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord." "Mountain" is the word that caught my attention. I've heard that scripture before and yet this time it meant something different. A mountain is a place where one goes to take refuge. To seek the higher ground. The temple is the same way. It is a place of safety, refuge, security. Why? Because that is where we learn more about the plan of salvation.
The second was President Packer's message "Do Not Fear." He assures us that some trials in our lives may be bitter and hard to bear. But then he reassures us, "It must needs be that there is opposition in all things. This testing is the source of our strength."
The third was the Mormon Message taken from the words of President Monson. It seems as though death has been touched on a lot lately in different conference talks. General conference had several speakers who had been touched personally by a family member's death, and tonight in our adult session of stake conference the visiting general authority told us he has a daughter who passed away. As President Monson said, "Among all the facts of mortality, none is so certain as it's end. Death comes to all."
I have three children. They are so dear to me. I can't imagine not having them here on earth with me. However I know that if something were to happen to any of them that I would see them again. This is the refuge I seek when I go to the temple- to know that my Savior died and then lived again so that we could as well. When people say that Mormons don't believe in Jesus Christ it hurts because I would be so lost without him. What hope would we have without the knowledge of that atonement that makes all right in the world again? I am so grateful to him for taking upon himself willingly the suffering of all humanity. Because of him all wrongs can be made right again, including that which takes those we love from us for a time.
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