Like a picked
flower cut from the source, we gradually wilt physically and mentally
and become vulnerable to a host of degenerative diseases that we simply
weren't susceptible to in our early adult years/ but even so , life is still good and today is the day and the season for you to bloom where you are planted!
Ecclesiastes 3
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up
that which is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
President Thomas S. Monson, prophet and president of The Church of Jesus Christ, said this:
We laugh, we cry, we work, we play, we love, we live. And
then we die. Death is our universal heritage. All must pass its
portals. Death claims the aged, the weary and worn. It visits the youth
in the bloom of hope and the glory of expectation. Nor are little
children kept beyond its grasp. In the words of the Apostle Paul, “It is
appointed unto men once to die” (Hebrews 9:27).
And dead we would remain but for one Man and His mission, even Jesus of
Nazareth. Born in a stable, cradled in a manger, His birth fulfilled
the inspired pronouncements of many prophets. He was taught from on
high. He provided the life, the light, and the way. Multitudes followed
Him. Children adored Him. The haughty rejected Him. He spoke in
parables. He taught by example. He lived a perfect life. … To all who
have lost loved ones, we would … answer: If a man die, he shall live
again. We know, for we have the light of revealed truth. “I am the
resurrection, and the life,” spoke the Master. “He that believeth in me,
though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and
believeth in me shall never die” (John 11:25–26).
Through tears and trials, through fears and sorrows, through the
heartache and loneliness of losing loved ones, there is assurance that
life is everlasting. Our Lord and Savior is the living witness that such
is so.
Whatever God does, it will be forever
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