Perspective is powerful. Since April of this last year, I had a tiny candle light moment that has only been growing into a more saturating LED bulb of perspective since. During the General Women’s Meeting, they showed this sweet video about families. It depicted all different types of families. Families sitting and singing the words to a beautiful primary song, “The Family is of God.” I had heard it many times from the primary love muffins (everything goes back to food with me), but it was one line in that song that hit me in a different way: “God gave us families to help us become what He wants us to be.” This single sentence really has given me pause to ponder the power of family. Not only the power of the family right in our very own homes, not only the extended families we eat green jello and casseroles with, but our ward families, our friend families, or have you ever thought about the power and love of our ancient family? One thing that has become so real to me is how real the people, our family, who are written about and testified of in the scriptures are. I picture in my mind these people…OUR brothers and sisters… sat with us…side by side in the grand counsel in Heaven to hear and shout hurray for the Great Plan of Happiness that was presented to us by our loving Father. I believe that as one eternal family, we expressed our excitement and encouragement for one another as we waited for our turn to have this extraordinary experience on this earth. The thought that you…me…we… may of talked and conversed with the great prophets and faithful examples and leaders like Nephi or Mary or Moroni or Peter or Hannah or Ester or Joseph… as family… is profound to me. As I have tried to deepen my perspective on who these ancient people are, why their experience is so applicable today, in my life, for me, the answer came in the simple sentence of a song: “God gave us families to help us become what he wants us to be.” I know that these people and what they teach in the scriptures are real and true. The scriptures is what ties us to them. This experience of our brothers and sisters helps us, guides us, shapes us, into how we should go forward in our own unique experience. Their perspective can and will enlighten our own perspective. I am so grateful and deeply humbled by the knowledge of belonging to something so much bigger and so much greater. My prayer is that I will tie myself with our eternal family. I hope to listen more, love more deeply, and ponder and apply the principles and help testified of, no matter the dispensation of time we were sent to live in.
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