Eat, Read, and Be Mommy

This week my family had the opportunity to attend the Jordan River Temple open house–me with the littles Wednesday morning, my hubby with the bigs tonight.  It’s not a new temple, but it’s one of the busiest–likely THE busiest–there is, and for the past year and more it’s been undergoing updates and renovations.  We’ve missed it–all of the other temples in the Salt Lake valley have been busier in the meantime–and it’s wonderful to have the work on it completed; it’s also wonderful, however, to be able to walk through the temple with my children and see the beauty and the peace that are everywhere you look.  Those of our faith make covenants in our temples; we are sealed together as families to be together in the next life as well as this one; and we make covenants as well on behalf of those who’ve died without the opportunity to do it themselves.  We find peace there, and a stillness that our world and daily life as we know it lacks.  We look for spiritual guidance.  Our temples are houses of the Lord.

If you’d like to take a few minutes to focus on peace, beauty, and God’s love, you can find information about our temples here.