Mormon Monday

“Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.

Today's Mormon Monday is about Love. How appropriate since it's Valentine's Day.

In a recent message of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir’s Music and the Spoken Word, a story was told about an elderly man and woman who had been married for many decades. Because the wife was slowly losing her sight, she could no longer take care of herself the way she had done for so many years. Without being asked, the husband began to paint her fingernails for her.

“He knew that she could see her fingernails when she held them close to her eyes, at just the right angle, and they made her smile. He liked to see her happy, so he kept painting her nails for more than five years before she passed away.”

That is an example of the pure love of Christ. Sometimes the greatest love is not found in the dramatic scenes that poets and writers immortalize. Often, the greatest manifestations of love are the simple acts of kindness and caring we extend to those we meet along the path of life.

True love lasts forever. It is eternally patient and forgiving. It believes, hopes, and endures all things. That is the love our Heavenly Father bears for us.

As some of you know my husband and I were not married in the Temple. In fact, that is one of the reasons I waited so long to have a child because I do believe that if I was not sealed to my husband and children I would not have eternal life with them. It was the best day of my life thus far to go to Temple to be sealed to my husband and 3 month old son for all eternity. I felt the love of my Heavenly Father so much and my love grew for him aswell.

If we wish to learn truly how to love, all we need to do is reflect on the life of our Savior. When we partake of the sacramental emblems, we are reminded of the greatest example of love in all the world’s history. “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son.”

The Savior’s love for us was so great that it caused “even God, the greatest of all, to tremble because of pain, and to bleed at every pore.”

Because the Savior laid down His life for us, we have a brightness of hope, a confidence and security that when we pass from this worldly existence, we will live again with Him. Through the Atonement of Jesus Christ, we can be cleansed of sin and stand as partakers of the gift of our Almighty Father. Then we will know the glory that God “hath prepared for them that love him

Love is the greatest of all the commandments—all others hang upon it. It is our focus as followers of the living Christ. It is the one trait that, if developed, will most improve our lives.

I honestly know my Heavenly Father and Jesus love me. I feel it. Even when I wasn't always living the kind of life I knew I should be I still felt that love.

Most of the information is from this talk