Whisper

Saturday, April 24, 2010

"Didn't you see His face?"

As we pray to our Heavenly Father in the name of His Son, it is impossible not to feel their love for us.  The same spirit can be felt from studying the scriptures and learning about the life of Christ.  We will come to know Him, His love, and the pathway for our own lives will be layed out in front of us.  The next thing I want my children to really understand is His love for them and just how well He knows them.  They are not alone.

President Thomas S. Monson shares a story in the June 2002 Ensign. (Don't you just love his stories!)
"Several years ago I received a letter from a woman who had emerged from a long period of Church inactivity. She was ever so anxious for her husband, who as yet was not a member of the Church, to share the joy she felt.
She wrote of a trip which she, her husband, and their three sons made from the family home to Grandmother’s home in Idaho. While driving through Salt Lake City, they were attracted by the message which appeared on a billboard. The message invited them to visit Temple Square. Bob, the nonmember husband, made the suggestion that a visit would be pleasant. The family entered the visitors’ center, and Father took two sons up a ramp that one called “the ramp to heaven.” Mother and three-year-old Tyler were a bit behind the others, they having paused to appreciate the beautiful paintings which adorned the walls. As they walked toward the magnificent sculpture of Thorvaldsen’s Christus, tiny Tyler bolted from his mother and ran to the base of the Christus, while exclaiming, “It’s Jesus! It’s Jesus!” As Mother attempted to restrain her son, Tyler looked back toward her and his father and said, “Don’t worry. He likes children.”
After departing the center and again making their way along the freeway toward Grandmother’s, Dad asked Tyler what he liked best about their adventure on Temple Square. Tyler smiled up at him and said, “Jesus.”
“How do you know that Jesus likes you, Tyler?”
Tyler, with a most serious expression on his face, looked up at his father’s eyes and answered, “Dad, didn’t you see His face?”

Nothing else needed to be said."

1 comment:

  1. Thanks, Mom. I really like this story. It reminded me of when we went to Temple Square when I was young. Ever since then I have loved to return.

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