Life is to be LIVED!

Existence is what we are fighting for.

Endurance may be a part of life but it is not life.

Endurance is not a way of life, it is death.

If you are enduring you are not living.

Too many people think otherwise, especially in the church, especially those with temple endowments and this is because they do not understand what the temple is about.

The temple gives promises of life through Christ by the power of God’s love if we receive it. To endure existence is not life. Life is to be full and free and fun and challenging and rewarding. Life is for living! This is why Christ died! He did not die so we could endure; he died so that we might have life and have it more abundantly.

Life is something we must claim. We must reach out and grab it. Not through addiction and distraction but through claiming who we are and the love that is our inheritance from God through Jesus Christ. Everything upon earth can be faced into truth, light, and life or into ignorance, darkness, and death. We each have the power to turn it into that which we claim. And by the choices we make and the way we choose to view our life and experiences we will claim that amount of truth, light, and life or ignorance, darkness, and death. We do it each and every day. We claim our heritage. Our fore fathers did and we do as well.