Erik Gray's journals
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Vernal Temple
January 27, 2017
#journal gems
Vernal Temple
January 27, 2017
So the session started. AND I DIDN'T REALIZE HOW TIRED I WAS! I was almost nodding off... :( BUT the amazing thing is that God still taught me. :)
Two things that stood out to me from the session:
#1... even up until the last second of the session we are still being taught. Literally right at the veil we are being taught. Learning is a never-ending thing and we should always strive to be learning. Which is interesting at my stage of life. I love the connection. I have a desire to just keep learning and growing. I want to read. And study. And grow and learn more than ever before.
#1... even up until the last second of the session we are still being taught. Literally right at the veil we are being taught. Learning is a never-ending thing and we should always strive to be learning. Which is interesting at my stage of life. I love the connection. I have a desire to just keep learning and growing. I want to read. And study. And grow and learn more than ever before.
FIRST OF ALL. THE CELESTIAL ROOM. it was glorious and magnificent and hands down is now my favorite Celestial Room of any temple. I can only describe it in the way it is... CELESTIAL!
#2... My tiredness was kind of an analogy... this part of my life, I'm dying... it's the "enduring to the end" stage right now, ya know? And I was soooo tired during the session. So here's the connection. Sometimes it's exhausting to "be good" and to CTR and I feel like just trying to be a good saint is hard and exhausting. But you've just got to keep pushing and keep trying. Because I pushed through and tried my very best to pay attention and to stay awake and really just feel the peace of the session. It was hard. Physically beat.
But once I stepped into the Celestial Room, I was AMAZED. Peace and humility and love just immediately entered into my soul. T beauty and magnificent-ness of that Celestial Room, I just... can't even describe it. Well, okay I can: celestial. 😊 there is a giant picture of the Savior. So the feeling of entering the room for me was Jesus with this arms open about to embrace me, saying "Okay. You've made it! You did and I'm so proud of you. THIS is where you rest because you pushed and tried so hard on Earth." And the scripture of "Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest."
The 5 hr drive for that session was so worth it. Truthfully, I would drive 5 hrs JUST for those 10 minutes we were in the Celestial Room. It. Was. Incredible. Vernal is very close to the top on my list of favorite temples now. I'm so grateful I followed my feelings to come on a road trip out here- even if we just came for the temple. BUT the temple is such a good reason. 😊
I have such a full heart for the gospel. I'm so grateful for God. For my Savior. For peace. For happiness despite me being terminal. I know what's really important in life and I know I'm doing good. Grateful every day for God.
Well, journal, that's all for today!
