End of Days

I am sickened by the events in an elementary school yesterday.  I have so many thoughts and feelings running through my head and heart that it is hard to put into words.  I did find these words of peace and wanted to share.

  “We have again the warning voice sounded in our midst, which shows the uncertainty of human life; and in my leisure moments I have meditated upon the subject, and asked the question, why it is that infants, innocent children, are taken away from us, especially those that seem to be the most intel

ligent and interesting. The strongest reasons that present themselves to my mind are these: This world is a very wicked world; and it … grows more wicked and corrupt. … The Lord takes many away, even in infancy, that they may escape the envy of man, and the sorrows and evils of this present world; they were too pure, too lovely, to live on earth; therefore, if rightly considered, instead of mourning we have reason to rejoice as they are delivered from evil, and we shall soon have them again. …

“… The only difference between the old and young dying is, one lives longer in heaven and eternal light and glory than the other, and is freed a little sooner from this miserable, wicked world. Notwithstanding all this glory, we for a moment lose sight of it, and mourn the loss, but we do not mourn as those without hope.”
~ Joseph Smith, Jr.

 

I am so grateful for the hope that the Gospel of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints gives to me.  My knowledge that those tiny children where wrapped in the arms of our Lord yesterday.  That they will never have to live with the horror that we now live with, left here on earth, to remember the bad.  They do not have to deal with the anger and hurt and pain that we will be living with.  They are happy, loved and watching over their loved ones left here.

I will hold my children a bit tighter, and whisper the words of our Lord to them.  Let them know that they will be protected no matter what happens.  The Lord is always with us.  He has a plan and all we can do is do our best to live so that we can stand in His glory one day, with our loved ones.