The Ways of the People Had Become Horrid

The ways of the people had become horrid
Ought not fire rain upon Sodom and Gomorrah?
God chose to save one family- Lot and his wife
He warned them to flee and "escape for thy life"

"Lest thou be consumed, Look not behind thee!"
But, Lot's wife took these words all too lightly
For she loved these cities to a fatal fault
Faltering, she turned... into a pillar of salt

With, still, an attachment placed on the past
Her confidence in the future did not out last
We, too, should only look back to claim bright embers
From the glowing faith that one remembers

For faith is always pointed forwards
As to the future, one moves towards
There to rise above all that's ended
Our frailties shall then be transcended

Remember Lot's Wife
Elder Jeffrey R. Holland