In the Savior's Footsteps

Chad and I love to go to the temple together. I think we appreciate it more now because for years one of us would go while the other watched the kids and then we'd switch. Thanks to Jeannine's eagerness to help us with our babysitting needs, we can now attend as a couple. While my parents have been on their mission, we have been steadily working through the stack of family names they left us to do temple work for. I have had marvelous experiences performing this service in behalf of my own family.

For the past two months we have been sure to use one of our temple visits for sealings, which is an ordinance where families are bonded together through the priesthood for eternity. What a wonderful blessing...to be with our families for always! We have had the same sealer for both visits, a lovely man named Brother Wight. At the end of our most recent visit, Brother Wight thanked us all for coming and then quoted a beautiful poem, the message of which brought us all to tears. It is so wonderful, we wanted to share it.

Where Jesus Walked

If I could go to Galilee and walk where Jesus walked

And sit in tender grasses on the hillside where he taught.

If I could feel a gentle breeze that lifted from the sea

Where he chose the humble fishermen, how full my heart would be.

If I could sit and ponder on a rock that knew his hand,

Or walk along the seashore where his feet had touched the sand.

My spirit yearns within me, but it doesn’t seem my fate,

I’ll never walk where Jesus walked, I’ll never see . . . but wait.

I’ve worshiped in His temple, where I know he’s walked before.

Have His feet been down this hallway? Have his fingers touched this door?

Has He stood here in this very room and looked at what I see?

In the beauty of His temple I feel His love for me.

I close my eyes and picture Him, my worries melt away.

I do not need to go to Galilee or travel far away.

For my tender heart is filled with what He wants me to be taught

And my testimony burns within . . . I’ve walked where Jesus walked!

- Author unknown

I love the temple, I love the unselfish work of salvation that happens within it's walls, and I love my Savior, Jesus Christ, for giving me knowledge of the path of happiness in this life and eternal joy with my family in the next.