Come Back

 https://latterdaysaintmag.com/empty-chairs-reflections-on-how-faithful-latter-day-saints-can-handle-the-pain-presented-by-wayward-loved-ones/

Elder Holland said: “His concern is for the faith at which you finally arrive, not the hour of the day in which you got there.” Eternity is a long time, so if it takes a while to get it right, the effort will have been worth it. “If you are struggling under the weight of wandering souls in your family, I invite you to ponder this simple question: “Do you think our heavenly parents wander through the heavens in morose agony over their straying children?”

If your answer was like mine, that I didn’t think so, then the follow-up question is “Why not?” I think that answer lies in PERSPECTIVE. Because our vision is limited, when a soul wanders, we fret and ache and sometimes we despair. God dwells in eternity and sees the end from the beginning.

Thoughts on Helping Those We Love

I was at the temple concerned about one of my sons. The thought came to me that I need to that him like a kind and priest in-the-making. I need to speak to him with that in my mind because it will change the way I see him and hopefully the way he sees himself to align more closely with who God knows He is. 

I heard a joke on the Hank Smith and John Bytheway Follow Him podcast, John, said something about praying about a child and saying, "What are you going to do about this boy of yours." Kind of putting the responsibility for the ownership of the misbehavior on God. It actually brought me some relief to think that this child is His child and was His before he was mine so He is also fully invested in his salvation with me, in fact, even more than me.

Another thought I had while taking the sacrament. "It doesn't really matter what anyone else thinks of him. He is valued beyond measure, beloved, powerful son of Mine."

"Now with God's help, I shall become myself." Soren Kierkegaard

"Twas I but tis not I." -William Shakespeare

Return Unto Me That I May Heal You

 https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/2025/04/23palmer?lang=eng

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