Restoration

I am grateful for the truths of the Restoration. I first heard those truths when I attended the  Mormon Pavilion at the New York world’s Fair in 1964.

Norman Vincent Peale also visited the Pavilion and he responded that in 13 minutes he was “told the story of where we came from, why we are here, and where we are going. The film motivated one to want to make the most of Earth life, and the last 2 minutes of the film where the most touching the most inspirational, and the most revealing of any two minutes of a film I have ever seen in my entire life... Out of this film I learned two things: one, an entirely new concept of the purpose of life and its connection with the eternities; two, an entirely new concept of the importance of the family in connection with the eternities". (From the Mormon pavilion at the 1964-65 New York world's Fair by Brent Top - religious studies center byu.edu)

The “Plan of Salvation”as we call it still touches me.  I watched "Man's Search for Happiness" again this morning.  I got to relive that day in 1964 when I was so touched by this movie that I stayed there at the Mormon Pavilion and watched it over and over.  I had been taught as a child that Jesus Christ was our Savior.  But no one have ever talked about the things I learned that day.

• We are children of God literally. 
• We lived with him before our life on Earth. 
• We really are brothers and sisters. 
• We are Divine in nature with potential we cannot imagine or comprehend. 
• We are here on Earth to gain a body and have experience. 
• We are given the gifts of time and agency. 
• Time forces us to make choices. 
• Agency allows those choices to be real as well as the consequences of those choices. 
• Our choices mold us and define us. We automatically become the person we choose to be. 
• Because we sometimes choose wrong and often cannot repair the damage we do to ourselves, to others and to relationships, we needed a Savior who could compensate for our failings and bring healing to all the pain and suffering of earth life.
• Through Jesus Christ we are prepared for a glorious life in the eternities with those we love. He made it possible.  We need only want it enough to embrace it and make it our own.

These truths inspired me when I heard them in that pavilion in 1964. They inspire me today.

I belong to the Church of Jesus Christ of latter-day Saints.

I know who I am. I know God's plan.

I'll follow Him in faith.

I believe in the Savior Jesus Christ

I'll honor His name.

I'll do what is right, I'll follow His Light.

His truth I will proclaim.