Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Ensign: Preparing our Homes for the refinement of Heaven‏ (Elder McAllister - 2009)


http://lds.org/liahona/2009/06/our-refined-heavenly-home?lang=eng


From Elder Douglas L. McAllister of the Seventy:

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"If we could part the veil and observe our heavenly home, we would be impressed with the cultivated minds and hearts of those who so happily live there. I imagine that our heavenly parents are exquisitely refined. In this great gospel of emulation, one of the purposes of our earthly probation is to become like them in every conceivable way so that we may be comfortable in the presence of heavenly parentage and, in the language of Enos, see their faces “with pleasure”(Enos 1:27).



"President Brigham Young (1801–77) said, “We are trying to be the image of those who live in heaven; we are trying to pat[t]ern after them, to look like them, to walk and talk like them.” 1 I would like to peek behind the veil that temporarily separates us from our heavenly home and paint a word picture of the virtuous, lovely, and refined circumstances that exist there. I will speak of the language, literature, music, and art of heaven, as well as the immaculate appearance of heavenly beings, for I believe that in heaven we will find each of these in pure and perfected form.

"The nearer we get to God, the more easily our spirits are touched by refined and beautiful things."

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