Eternally Splendid

What will it matter

What we suffer, here

If we, though tattered,

Feel the Spirit near

We've so much on our plates

But, It is all worth it

For Heaven awaits

Eternally, splendid!

“Sisters, I do not know why we have the many trials that we have, but it is my personal feeling that the reward is so great, so eternal and everlasting, so joyful and beyond our understanding that in that day of reward, we may feel to say to our merciful, loving Father, ‘Was that all that was required?’ I believe that if we could daily remember and recognize the depth of that love our Heavenly Father and our Savior have for us, we would be willing to do anything to be back in Their presence again, surrounded by Their love eternally. What will it matter, dear sisters, what we suffered here if, in the end, those trials are the very things which qualify us for eternal life and exaltation in the kingdom of God with our Father and Savior?” 

Linda S. Reeves, Second Counselor, Relief Society General Presidency “Worthy of Our Promised Blessings,” October 2015 General Conference

Artwork by Kevin Carden