It's Not About The Nail

My Life Is Grounded In Eternity

Our Sunday lesson today was on obedience.  I spent a good deal of time thinking on the questions the teacher put on the board:

How has your personal obedience affected your life?
How has the obedience of others affected your life?

While the answers I thought of at church were important it wasn't until I got home and read a Facebook post from my Father (then finally watched the video I've seen floating around)
that I truly came to understand why obedience is so important to me. 





You see obedience is the KEY to enter the temples of our church.  It is there I am able to connect with God at a deeper spiritual level then I can anywhere else on earth.  It is there I can connect with who He wants me to be here so I have an AWESOME eternity. 
I am so grateful I made the decisions I made that kept me on an obedient path so I could first enter the temple AND the decisions I am making that will allow me to always attend the temple.

While you may not understand what a temple is to a Latter-Day Saint just know that when I say "I went on a church retreat to South Carolina"  or  "I need to take a few hours to commune with God at the temple" that it is my grounding place.  My place to retreat and feel His love and acceptance.

Here is a great video that describes the sacredness of Temples for us.

You may not have 16 minutes to watch it.  I hope you take the time anyway.  The part I love the most starts at 14:45 with "when I see a sacred shrine of any religion".... " I am moved to admire the deep feelings that lead them to build it"...

I hope everyone who meets me knows I admire what they believe.  I don't have to believe in the things they teach to be moved.  I also hope and pray that my worship moves them to worship God more.