We have been really busy this week. I am not sure if you all know but Ash's Grandfather died, and we went up to see him on Monday night. He passed away on Tuesday morning so we have been with the family since wednesday night. I wont say too much about this as I know that Ash is going to post about it, so I was just going to share some thoughts from my perspective and what I saw during the week.
There was a conversation that Ash's cousin, Char had with us when we saw him after Granddad died. He was there and slept in the room the night before. He told us how he felt their Nan come into the room (she passed away about 4 years ago), and take granddad and leave.
He said that Nan was not interested in all of the other family in the room, only in coming and taking Granddad and leaving.
It was not really talked about much. Like what I am meaning is that what he talked about was not discussed any further and the conversation carried on in a different direction. I tried to bring it back up, but never got the chance to as someone else spoke, so I gave up, and pondered the subject myself.
Now some of you will know that I have read a book recently called Vision of Glory, and among other things, there was a section that talked about spirits and going beyond the veil into the spirit world after they die. I remember reading that loved ones that had passed on would gather at the veil and that the ones most closest to them, (a mother, father, husband or wife) would take them through the veil, and welcome them, and take them to their loved ones who would embrace them and have a wonderful reunion. The book also talked about how loved ones would come and help the person who has moved on about the ways of the post mortal life, such as how to communicate, how to move, and other things that would have to be learned and understood and gotten use too.
It made me think of course, about my father and also of Job who has left us recently. I thought of the chance that perhaps dad was there to take him through, and to be his guide and help as he adjusted to life in the next world. The thought made me happy that someone who loved me so much,( and knowing dad that he would love our children just as much), would be there helping his grandson out.
As we talked to different people at the home about granddad and other things, I got talking to Ash's aunty who I have never had any reservations about talking about spiritual things to her, even though she is not a member. We were talking about death and she said to me, " you know people say that they are sad that granddad will never get to see some of the great grand children and the ones that are yet to come, but I'm not sad, cause they get to see him." I told her that I believed that she was right, that he will get to be with them before they come to earth, and that was the belief that she had too. I then talked to her about how when Ayuri was growing up, she would often amaze me with the frank and openness, as she would refer to grandpa Murray. She would talk as though he was someone that she knew, and I always had the impression that her familiararity with him was a result of the conversations and communion they would have had, before she was born.
For along time in my youth I would think that the spirit world was a far off place in yonder heaven, millions of miles away. But I remember reading teachings from both Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, both telling us that the spirit world is nowhere else but the very same world we live in!! I remember talking to a friend about it and he said that the spirit world is like another dimension that we have all around us, but cannot see. For some reason that stuck with me, and I think it isn't too far off the mark. Some people have the spiritual gift of having the veil to the spirit world parted from time to time, and to even, as it were, to have one foot in this world and one foot in the spirit world. I think it was the prophet Joseph who was referring to Lorenzo Snow as having this gift.
I am grateful for the blessings of the gospel.... and one of the blessings I am especially grateful for, is the knowledge of things, as they are. You know the saying, knowledge is power??? Well to me that saying is so true! I gain so much power and strength from the teachings and wisdom the the gospel contains. I have the faith that every gospel question I have, has an answer.... it is just a matter of what I am willing to do, to find that answer. Am I willing to be patient and exercise faith until I get that answer? Some times I get the answer fairly quickly. Other times it takes a few years. But like I said before, I have a firm belief that God will answer me, and my petitions to Him.
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