Homesick

Laura and I were talking earlier today about how we have been yearning to skip this earthly life and skip right to the end. If heaven is such a wonderful place, then it stinks that we have to remain here in this "dreary wasteland". David and Grandma are the lucky ones! 

But of course, we remind ourselves that patients is the key. We tell ourselves to stay on the path and trust in the Lords plan. This is a wonderful world we live in and we are so blessed with our families. 

In reviewing a book I recently read, I came across a part that seemed to apply to what we had been discussing and I thought I'd share it here:

"Sometimes we feel far removed from our heavenly origins; the separation seems so great. At those times, we need to hear our Savior's voice and know His words. Every day, more than anything else, we need to continue to hear His voice through the scriptures.

If we hear His voice, then we can know, regardless of whatever dark chasms surround us, that we will not perish because He knows the way and has already traveled the path before us. When we hear His voice and remember the prints of the nails in His hands and feet and the mark of the spear in His side, we can know that, regardless of our many faults, we are redeemed by the sacrifice of His body and His blood. When we hear his voice, we remember that He died that we might live. We remember that at some future time we will see His face and bathe His feet with tears of gratitude. We will know Him then because we listen for Him now." (I Need Thee Every Hour, Applying the Atonement in Everyday Life, by David P. Vandagriff)

Do you sometimes feel so far from heavenly things - like a homesick child on their first sleepover? Feeling like the only thing that will give you the needed energy to go on is to hear the voice of your father again? If so, open your scriptures. The scriptures are where we will hear Him. He is calling to us, let us go the scriptures to hear Him again.