Maybe I am just trying to get back in touch with my childhood, but I find it easy to remember all the songs I used to sing in church as a little kid. There is a beauty about the simplicity of the message that they share and an even greater beauty to the depth of its meaning. I have pondered many times on the words to the Hymn:
"Families Can Be Together Forever" and considered it truth in my own life. I am one of the lucky kids who grew up in a good home, raised by good parents, with good siblings. Life has not always been perfect but things have been easier because I have parents who care and sisters who support me. "The family is ordained of God" (
The Family: A Proclamation to the World). In my family, we were never alone, we always cared for and respected each other. I know that God has prepared a way for our families to be happy and to live together forever and I'm grateful for the blessings of the holy temples that provide us that possibility. I hope to live in a manner in which I may see them gathered with my Heavenly Family.
