Families Can Be Together Forever

I believe this is my last week of posting for school related purposes. I have not even had the chance to cover many of the joys that pertain to marriage. I haven't even started in on the family unit. Luckily this blog does not have to end when I turn in my final report.

I hope yesterdays blog was a good introduction into the idea of the family unit.

In primary we use to sing a song that is called families can be together forever. This is a solid and beautiful doctrine we believe as members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. When parents are sealed in the holy temples children are born in a unit that overcomes death and can be eternal. There is pain and sorrow in death, but when we understand this truth there is also a sweet surety that death is not the end. We also have a sense of added desire to live worthy so that we might reunite with family members that have left this mortal state.

I have never had children, but I have been a child. I have felt success in my life. As I have pondered my success I believe that much of it came because I was blessed with a good family life. My mother and father were married in the Idaho Falls Temple, sealed for eternity. They were actively involved in our lives as children. They built traditions which strengthened our family unit. They spent time being good parents. They helped my brothers and I to become good and dear friends. I look to them as a great example of marriage as well as a great example of parenthood. They sacrificed for us. I am so thankful that we can be together forever.

I was reading in a book about this. I quote "Nothing brings more light to a child's face than the sacred assurance that he can be together, forever, with his family. Conversely, nothing tears at his heart more than sensing that the much-promised family belonging may be slipping from his grasp. We do not marry for ourselves alone. Our children are entitled to expect that we live not only for our future but for theirs."

I just know that marriage between a man and a woman that will righteously rear their children is most important, especially in our society today. I know that family units can bring the most happiness in this life. We can be very successful in other areas of this life, but the sweetest joy comes in success in family life.