This month we faced the prospect of my husband having a serious form of cancer. It made me appreciate him and the time we have here on earth even more. It also made me realize that we can feel peace no matter what happens in our lives. The emotion we did not feel was a fear of death. So much of the world lives in fear of dying, but the Gospel helps us to know that our lives do not end at death. We are assured that we will have our bodies back, whole and immortal, and that we can continue our family relationships.
We are grateful to have been blessed with more time together. We are thankful for the hope we have because of the atonement our Savior provided for us.
(picture taken after he had had several precancerous spots burned off)
10 O how great the goodness of our God, who prepareth a way for our escape from the grasp of this awful monster; yea, that monster, death and hell, which I call the death of the body, and also the death of the spirit.
11 And because of the way of deliverance of our God, the Holy One of Israel, this death, of which I have spoken, which is the temporal, shall deliver up its dead; which death is the grave.
12 And this death of which I have spoken, which is the spiritual death, shall deliver up its dead; which spiritual death is hell; wherefore, death and hell must deliver up their dead, and hell must deliver up its captive spirits, and the grave must deliver up its captive bodies, and the bodies and the spirits of men will be restored one to the other; and it is by the power of the resurrection of the Holy One of Israel.
2 Nephi 9:10-12
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