tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018387523779914474.post7549687551823583174..comments2023-12-31T05:01:58.031-06:00Comments on Young Stranger: Building the Temple... In Our HeartsJohn Gustav-Wrathallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03557940681381951271noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018387523779914474.post-25810436902818619052008-09-30T17:34:00.000-05:002008-09-30T17:34:00.000-05:00I know you will get back there someday, John.I know you will get back there someday, John.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018387523779914474.post-50160495410599541632008-09-30T10:42:00.000-05:002008-09-30T10:42:00.000-05:00Beck -- Thanks, so much! Yes, Haggai is a little ...Beck -- Thanks, so much! Yes, Haggai is a little gem... After reading it this morning, I realize I will want to go back and read it again and again. I'm glad my post encouraged you to go back to the source as well...<BR/><BR/>It is hard for me sometimes when I am at church and everyone's talking about ward temple night. At this point, I basically just need to remind myself that I need to use this time in my life to prepare my heart. Perhaps some day the conditions will be right...<BR/><BR/>Part of that preparation for me is building a world in which the principles of the temple will become the governing principles of the world we live in... The kind of world where justice, peace and truth are the air we breathe, and where love is our light...John Gustav-Wrathallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03557940681381951271noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018387523779914474.post-64416498508220930952008-09-30T08:43:00.000-05:002008-09-30T08:43:00.000-05:00Thank you for encouraging me to rediscover and rea...Thank you for encouraging me to rediscover and read Haggai again. <BR/><BR/>The temple for me is a sanctuary from the world - including its cares and worries. It is a place of renewal and recommitment, a place of communication and linkage with Heavenly Father. It is a place of revelation, especially alone in meditation in the Celestial Room. Many of life's decisions and revelatory moments have connected in the temple.<BR/><BR/>Yet, I've also found such clarity of thinking alone in the mountains, in the desert, in the "wilderness". Often, the temple as a beacon of light can be found in me when I can be alone and still and quiet and in tune. Though sealing priesthood ordinances are provided in a physical consecrated structure, the revelatory conduit is not found only there, but a consecrated heart.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for that insight.Beckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06159223254071653666noreply@blogger.com