From Dad 6/8
Hi everyone,
We are thankful for what we have heard from your trip and Zach’s “arrival” in the mission field. Somehow we are not able to make the blog videos work for us. It will say “buffering…” and then nothing happens. We down loaded the latest software to show the video’s (as far as we know) with no results. Any ideas? The story about the sea lions certainly makes us curious to see the video clip. What we miss is the sitting around at the end of the day and just talking and hearing all of your stories. It will be good when we can share those times again with you.
Mom and I have both been impressed by President Hinckley’s comments in the June Ensign. His ability and inspiration to see a clear picture of what has gone before and so clearly why lies ahead is a great blessing to our family and any other individual or family who will give a listening ear and receive it into their heart. None of us are able to slow down what lies ahead. The only thing we can do is better prepare our own hearts and our own families to be ready when the refiner’s fire sweeps through the earth. Such a fire is necessary in order for the Lord to know His own are ready when that time comes to remove from the earth all elements of a telestial world. The millennium is only possible after this cleansing. Knowing where we stand that the winds of adversity will not sweep us and our families away deserves our deepest consideration. May we take the time to help hold up the hands that sometime hang down. May we stand as a family when that day of division comes.
This refiner’s fire is a life and a heart changing experience. The time truly will come when the “beloved” grey area, the area we all like to hide behind and say, “It is not yet time to decide. There is still time”, will no longer be found. Everyone will need to declare whose side they are on, what their convictions are. The sooner we answer the call and are willing to stand up and be counted and help the Father with His work, the greater the blessings will be for such a commitment and the fewer the difficult times that will lie ahead wherein no one is there to shield us or to take the “hit” from us for those yet unresolved issues in our lives.
We are either drawing closer to our Father in Heaven or we are not. Personally, I want to be shed of the responsibility of choosing another way and then having to stand before the Lord, who knows fully my heart, and then try to explain to Him why it didn’t seem so important at the time. Well can I understand why those faced with that dilemma (and I sincerely hope to not end up being one of them) would just as soon a mountain would fall on them and burry them than to have to face that moment of accounting for life and what did and what did not happen.
As you can see this message from President Hinckley has affected my feelings and has been much on my mind. Our greatest desire is to be one and to “close the ranks”. May each of you come to know these are only the thoughts and feelings of a father and grandfather who loves our family very much. I can’t stand the thought of having an empty chair (especially if it would be mine)!
May our kind and faithful Heavenly Father through His Beloved Son be with and guide and comfort each of us as we find our way through life each day.
Love always,
Dad and Grandpa
We are thankful for what we have heard from your trip and Zach’s “arrival” in the mission field. Somehow we are not able to make the blog videos work for us. It will say “buffering…” and then nothing happens. We down loaded the latest software to show the video’s (as far as we know) with no results. Any ideas? The story about the sea lions certainly makes us curious to see the video clip. What we miss is the sitting around at the end of the day and just talking and hearing all of your stories. It will be good when we can share those times again with you.
Mom and I have both been impressed by President Hinckley’s comments in the June Ensign. His ability and inspiration to see a clear picture of what has gone before and so clearly why lies ahead is a great blessing to our family and any other individual or family who will give a listening ear and receive it into their heart. None of us are able to slow down what lies ahead. The only thing we can do is better prepare our own hearts and our own families to be ready when the refiner’s fire sweeps through the earth. Such a fire is necessary in order for the Lord to know His own are ready when that time comes to remove from the earth all elements of a telestial world. The millennium is only possible after this cleansing. Knowing where we stand that the winds of adversity will not sweep us and our families away deserves our deepest consideration. May we take the time to help hold up the hands that sometime hang down. May we stand as a family when that day of division comes.
This refiner’s fire is a life and a heart changing experience. The time truly will come when the “beloved” grey area, the area we all like to hide behind and say, “It is not yet time to decide. There is still time”, will no longer be found. Everyone will need to declare whose side they are on, what their convictions are. The sooner we answer the call and are willing to stand up and be counted and help the Father with His work, the greater the blessings will be for such a commitment and the fewer the difficult times that will lie ahead wherein no one is there to shield us or to take the “hit” from us for those yet unresolved issues in our lives.
We are either drawing closer to our Father in Heaven or we are not. Personally, I want to be shed of the responsibility of choosing another way and then having to stand before the Lord, who knows fully my heart, and then try to explain to Him why it didn’t seem so important at the time. Well can I understand why those faced with that dilemma (and I sincerely hope to not end up being one of them) would just as soon a mountain would fall on them and burry them than to have to face that moment of accounting for life and what did and what did not happen.
As you can see this message from President Hinckley has affected my feelings and has been much on my mind. Our greatest desire is to be one and to “close the ranks”. May each of you come to know these are only the thoughts and feelings of a father and grandfather who loves our family very much. I can’t stand the thought of having an empty chair (especially if it would be mine)!
May our kind and faithful Heavenly Father through His Beloved Son be with and guide and comfort each of us as we find our way through life each day.
Love always,
Dad and Grandpa
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