Find JOY in the JOURNEY!: GRIEF...

Sunday, November 7, 2010

GRIEF...

Today's lesson in Relief Society was on GRIEF. It was amazing! It was exactly what I needed to hear! I hope that I can be more sensitive to those around me! Everyone has been so kind and nice through this "grieving" time in my life and I am so thankful I have a loving Heavenly Father who knows what I or others might be going through. He loves us so much! I am so thankful I can turn to him especially in times like this. I am so thankful my whole family was at church today. That brought me much happiness today! Life is slowly getting back to where I think I might have a little control of things again. I also bore my testimony today in Relief Society. I wish so bad I could stand and have everything flow like others but I just can't! My heart beats so hard and then when I finally get up I am scared to death and then I just ramble and ramble. I am thankful for the testimonies that were shared in sacrament meeting today. They touched my heart and made me want to be a better person!

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"Parents who have surrendered the sweetest and smallest flowers from the family's garden need to remember our Heavenly Father. He has promised a special reward to those who now suffer in silence, who spend long days and longer nights through their trying times of bereavement. Our Creator has promised glory. He said, "For after much tribulation come the blessings. Wherefore the day cometh that ye shall be crowned with much glory; the hour is not yet, but nigh at hand." (D&C 58:4) That promised glory includes the blessing of reunion with each child who has left the family circle to help surviving members of the family to draw nearer to God. Those children still live and are a heritage to the Lord."
Russell M. Nelson

President John Taylor once said: "that the best explanation he could offer why so many little children among the Saints were called away, notwithstanding the great faith and power of the priesthood exercised to keep them here, was that they were bright and noble spirits who held important positions in the kingdom of God in the spirit world, from which they could not long be spared., They were given brief furloughs, long enough to come to earth, take upon themselves bodies of flesh and bone that they might be prepared for a resurrection to a kingdom of glory; and after a short experience in mortality were called back to resume important labors in a higher sphere."

Joseph F. Smith said:"Joseph Smith taught the doctrine that the infant child that was laid away in death would come up in the resurrection as a child; and pointing to the mother of a lifeless child, he said to her: ' You will have the joy, the pleasure, and satisfaction of nurturing this child, after its resurrection, until it reaches the full stature of its spirit.' There is restitution, there is growth, there is development, after the resurrection from death. I love this truth. It speaks volume of happiness, of joy and gratitude to my soul. Thank the Lord he has revealed these principles to us."