I read this article today
The author talks about how people sometimes dismiss the loss of our loved ones because our religion teaches that we will see them again. I loved that he validates our grief and uses President Hinckley as an example.
Great article.
La Salvation
3 years ago
I agree with you - that is a great article.
ReplyDeleteA good reminder that there is a purpose to mortality. And that purpose is most simply stated in 2 Ne 2:11,15:
ReplyDelete...it must needs be, that there is an opposition in all things. If not so, ...righteousness could not be brought to pass, neither wickedness, neither holiness nor misery, neither good nor bad. Wherefore, all things must needs be a compound in one; wherefore, if it should be one body it must needs remain as dead, having no life neither death, nor corruption nor incorruption, happiness nor misery, neither sense nor insensibility.
And to bring about his eternal purposes in the end of man, after he had created our first parents, and the beasts of the field and the fowls of the air, and in fine, all things which are created, it must needs be that there was an opposition; even the forbidden fruit in opposition to the tree of life; the one being sweet and the other bitter.
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And well, without the misery of grief, you can go further into the chapter to find:
"And they would have had no children; wherefore they would have remained in a state of innocence, having no joy, for they knew no misery; doing no good, for they knew no sin.
Adam fell that men might be; and men are, that they might have joy." (emphasis added)
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Thinking of Joy! ;) Thanks for sharing this article.
I remember that in Pres. Hinckley's funeral services, his daughter said something along the lines of, "When Mother died, Dad took the time to grieve for her. He felt his pain and went through it." And it was obvious that it was a constant source of sadness that she wasn't with him for the rest of his life.
ReplyDeleteIt was a really good article, the one you cited here. Why is it that we think someone should be "immune", or "get over it" faster or completely than someone else? Knowing the Plan of Salvation doesn't make THIS part of the plan -- mortality -- any shorter or easier, and THIS is where we are right now.
Anyway. I'm not preaching to you. I think you know this principle better than I wish you ever did.
what a great article, thanks for sharing. he articulated that so well. I love it when an article addresses something like this without being apologetic of our core beliefs.
ReplyDeleteEverytime I see a "Joy" this season I think of you. I love all the things you do to remember her. I also now catch all the ways in which the word "Glory" pops up, especially in music this time of year. So meaningful.
Tami-
ReplyDeleteSo true! Thanks for sharing this article. It is okay to be sad, and mad have the opportunity to grieve. Kurt and I pray for your family, especially during this time of year.