I Feel My Savior's Love

Tonight was the first night that I had the privilege to perform sealings with Zack in the Manti temple. We were late and at first I felt embarrassed to be walking in while the sealer was talking but we quickly found our seats and joined the group. I don't want to say that the experience was strange but it was different from anything I had ever done before. I felt as if all the people we were performing the ordinances for were in the room with us and I felt the power of my Savior's love more strongly than ever.

I would like to think that my wedding day and the day I received my endowments were of great spiritual importance but sitting there in the sealing room being proxy for those who have already left this life was amazing. Zack and I, already an eternal family, were helping others, who didn't get the chance to be sealed on Earth, be sealed to their loved ones forever. My love for my husband and eternal partner in this plan was magnified ten-fold.
As I looked into the mirrors in the sealing room the words of a favorite primary song flowed through my heart,

"I feel my Savior's love, in all the world around me. His spirit warms my heart, through everything I see...I feel my Savior's love and know that He will bless me, I offer Him my heart, my shepherd He will be."

I knew that the tears stinging my eyes were only the Spirit testifying to me that my service there tonight was what my Savior truly wanted of me.

As the world seems to come crashing down around me, I feel calm and security in the house of my Father in Heaven and know that the temple is truly a place where I can reach for Heaven and where Heaven reaches for me in return.

It's the place I reach for Heaven...