MTC Week #120 - We Are His Own

People.

There are so many people--each with a story of their own. Sometimes when I'm out and about, or waiting in a line, I look around at all of the people around me and think how fascinating it is that each has a unique life, each has joys and sorrows, and each has been through countless experiences that have shaped them into who they are today. While we all differ from one another in this way or that, there's one way in which we are all the same: we have a Heavenly Father and Mother who love us and who know us. 

As we were go through our rehearsal this morning, I was struggling to put my whole heart and soul into what I was doing. I was happy to be there, but I just wasn't quite connecting with the songs I was singing. As I looked out at the people who started filing into the Tabernacle, I saw them take their seats and saw many of them take out their smartphones to take some pictures or film the choir as we sang. This isn't unique--it happens every week. But for some reason as I watched them do that today, it jarred me out of my connecting struggles and made me realize, AGAIN, that there will be many in the audience and around the world who watch and listen to the music today and will be touched. In fact for some, it might be the only time this week when they'll be surrounded by truth and light and perhaps feel lifted and lightened. And loved.

I'm thankful to them for helping me reconnect and be in the moment.

My two favorite songs from today were If You Love Me, and In the Garden. The

chorus from the latter impressed me. I thought about all people having this experience with their Savior:

And He walks with me, and He talks with me,
And He tells me I am His own,
And the joy we share as we tarry there,
None other has ever known.

I'm grateful for people in general. I'm grateful for Heavenly parents. I'm grateful for a Savior. And I'm grateful for a good life.

Until next time, God be with you.