February 14, 2016

"Who Are We, Really!"


“Who Are We, Really!”

cji
2/15/16

Coming from where before here
someplace far away yet very close
remembering the great warmth
loving, tenderness, eternalness
so who are we, really found to be
are we really strangers here today
having gotten lost in outer space
or is this a pre-arranged stop-over
a testing window in our journey home
certainly we didn’t just evolve nothing
(even my two year grandson knows better)
nothing can come out of nothing
coming to the understanding of more
as the Scriptures tell us over again
we’re children of a Heavenly Father
sisters and brothers to the Savior
looking about and seeing our siblings
lost in a world which is unknowing
forgotten all of what we once were
forgetting eternally who we are, really!


Copyright © 2016 – cji

Before we were born, we accepted our Heavenly Father’s plan “by which [we] could obtain a physical body and gain earthly experience to progress toward perfection and ultimately realize [our] divine destiny as heirs of eternal life.” Of this premortal covenant, Elder John A. Widtsoe explained: “We agreed, right then and there, to be not only saviors for ourselves but … saviors for the whole human family. We went into a partnership with the Lord. The working out of the plan became then not merely the Father’s work, and the Savior’s work, but also our work. The least of us, the humblest, is in partnership with the Almighty in achieving the purpose of the eternal plan of salvation.” “The Worth of Souls,” Utah Genealogical and Historical Magazine, Oct. 1934, 189.

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