I just returned home after doing an endowment session in the temple. After I sat in the celestial room praying for a long while. As I prayed, I was simply overwhelmed with gratitude and joy and love. I am grateful beyond words for my own spiritual experiences and answers that have given me a deep and abiding unshakeable testimony of my Savior Jesus Christ, his redemptive, enabling, and healing power, and of the restoration of his church which teaches his gospel with true authority and is led by Him today.
I am also so grateful to know that my two oldest daughters also have their faith firmly rooted and that they are continuing daily to do the work to grow their roots deeper in their faith and grow closer to their Savior. I am also grateful my 3 younger kids are on the right path and working to grow roots as well. Lastly I am grateful to live so close to a temple, where I can go and visit a bit of heaven frequently.
I have never been one of those bereieved mothers who goes to her child's grave often to feel close to her child. I know that is helpful to so many of my angel mom friends. For me, going to her grave is just a reminder of all I have lost. When I want to feel close to Camille, I can go visit heaven by going to the temple.
I am also grateful for my roots - my ancestral roots. I am grateful beyond measure for the faithful men and women from whom I descend. I am grateful for the sacrifices they made for their faith and that I am honored to have a bit of their blood running through my veins.
So I guess my spiritual thought today is, how are your roots doing? Are you doing the work to grow them deep to seek the living water of the Savior?
