Eternal Families

My heart is full today. Church was inspiring and uplifting. It was testimony meeting and some of my favorite people in the ward bore their testimonies. It's always a great pleasure to listen to others with the same passions and fullness of the gospel that I share.

Dawson has a primary program coming up. He was asked to bring a family picture. I suppose on the onset, that's easy. Dawson and I just had our pictures taken together. But he has a whole family. His father, big brother, a grandmother. And now my heart is full with sorrow that Dawson's family photo is broken. There are no pictures, nor possibly will there ever be a "family" photo for him. It breaks my heart.

I suppose these are the things that happen when families are broken up. But I wish it had not happened to Dawson. He's so deserving of a family unity that he can claim an eternity too. Perhaps when he marries in the temple and has that eternal family he's bonded with forever, he will have that.

It's amazing how the picture changes when we take ourselves out of it. When we make and do things in an unselfish manner, it has a very different outcome than doing things out of selfishness.

It seemed to be the spoken theme throughout sacrament today. The gift of service. In as much as I love to serve my fellow man and I do so willingly on most occasions, I failed to serve those that I made a life commitment too. Some get a second chance some do not. I'll have to finish this another time - second chance or not.