What all of us long for in our hearts, at Christmastime and always, is to feel bound together in love with the sweet assurance that it can last forever.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the universal desire for enduring love and connection, particularly during the holiday season.
Henry B. Eyring's quote reflects on the deep yearning people have for lasting love and togetherness, especially highlighted during the warmth of Christmastime. It suggests that love provides a sense of security and unity, reminding us that such bonds are what truly enrich our lives and give it meaning.
In practice
During a Christmas gathering, I shared this quote to highlight the importance of love in our family celebrations.
My point is to urge you to find ways to recognize and remember Godβs kindness. It will build our testimonies. You may not keep a journal. You may not share whatever record you keep with those you love and serve. But you and they will be blessed as you remember what the Lord has done.
Increased spiritual strength is a gift from God which He can give when we push in His service to our limits. Through the power of the Atonement of Jesus Christ, our natures can be changed. Then our power to carry burdens can be increased more than enough to compensate for the increased service we will be asked to give.
Whether or not you choose to keep your covenant to always remember Him, He always remembers you.
We cannot control what others choose to do, and so we cannot force our children to heaven, but we can determine what we will do. And we can decide that we will do all we can to bring down the powers of heaven into that family we want so much to have forever.
It is serving God and others persistently with full heart and soul that turns testimony of truth into unbreakable spiritual strength.
It is hard to know when we have done enough for the Atonement to change our natures and so qualify us for eternal life. And we don't know how many days we will have to give the service necessary for that mighty change to come. But we know that we will have days enough if only we don't waste them.
Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.
Can't you see? Every step I have taken, since I was that child on the bridge, has been to bring myself closer to you.
Romances paint at full length people's wooing. But only give a bust of marriages.
There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side Of my darling- my darling- my life and my bride, In the sepulchre there by the sea, In her tomb by the sounding sea.
Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.
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