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I love a clear night sky where the human eye
can see some 7,500 stars.
I also love a brightening new dawn.
Both testify: "In the beginning God created the heaven
and the earth. ...
And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
And God saw the light, that it was good."
In every village, town, or city, in every congregation
across the world, I love seeing each individual face.
The Fatherhood of God makes real the brotherhood and sisterhood
of men and women.
In the faces and daily lives of good people
in every nation, kindred, and tongue,
I see a mosaic of God's love.
As children of God, when we're open and honest and vulnerable,
we yearn to find goodness, beauty, and purpose
in God's creations and in our human sociality.
This beautiful stained-glass window
depicts foundational truths about life's eternal purpose
and harmony.
Our perspective changes when we know, as I do,
that God is our Eternal Father, that Jesus Christ is
His Beloved Son, and that these two glorified Personages
appeared to the latter-day prophet Joseph Smith
to restore the fulness of the gospel of Jesus Christ
in order to bless every individual and family.
I'm grateful for the divine symmetry
in the first and second great commandments.
God invites us to love Him and to love those
around us as He does.
As we do, we feel fulfillment and joy,
greater love for and from God, and greater love
for and from our neighbor.
We belong to God and to each other
by covenant, ancient and modern.
God loves us and knows us better than we know or love ourselves.
In covenant belonging, made possible
by the Atonement of Jesus Christ, we can trust the Lord.
Because Jesus Christ overcame physical and spiritual death,
our covenant bonds can be stronger
than the cords of death.
I know that by being true to sacred ordinances and covenants
we can make in holy temples, we can
return to the presence of God, and our families
can be united eternally.
I rejoice that holy temples are closer now than ever
before to God's sons and daughters everywhere.
On each temple, we read "Holiness
to the Lord, House of the Lord."
Temple promises and covenants enable and ennoble.
They can bless and sanctify, making us
spiritually free with the fulness of enduring joy.
At a time when the world is in commotion
with natural disasters and human injustice,
our Lord Jesus Christ invites each person
in every nation, kindred, and tongue to come to Him
and partake of the fruits of His restored gospel:
peace, joy, healing, and love.
God's love is intimate and infinite.
It fills the universe yet is personal to each of us,
one by one.
God's commandments, given in love to bless us,
teach us His plan and His covenant path.
I know that God, our Eternal Father, lives;
that Jesus Christ is the living Son of the living God;
and that the Holy Ghost prompts, protects, sanctifies, blesses.
The Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost
guide and bless us with unity of divine purpose.
I testify that the gospel of Jesus Christ is restored with
continuing revelation through living prophets and apostles,
with latter-day priesthood and authority,
with companion scripture to the Bible in the Book
of Mormon--another testament of Jesus Christ as Savior
and Redeemer, a God of miracles.
With all my heart and soul, I testify
these things are true and will bless each of us
as we come unto Christ and by power and grace are perfected
in Him.
In the name of Jesus Christ, amen.