Someone once asked President Brigham Young (as a family we believe in living Prophets and Apostles...Brigham Young was the second President of our church - sustained in 1847, and a Prophet and Apostle) if he thought he would live to see the completion of the building of the Salt Lake Temple. He responded to this question, and his response has been meaningful to me in regards to my thoughts about my life on earth:
"...I do not know, and I do not care...I have never cared but for one thing, and that is, simply to know that I am now right before my Father in Heaven. If I am this moment, this day, doing the things God requires of my hands, and precisely where my Father in Heaven wants me to be, I care no more about tomorrow than though it never would come. I do not know where I shall be tomorrow..." (Journal of Discourses, Vol. 1, p. 132.)
I also recently heard this quote from President Abraham Lincoln:
“...I can die but once; but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again.”
I am so grateful to know of Heavenly Father's plan for me individually, and for our family, and all of His children. The very, very most important thing in my life is to strive and try to be "right before my Father in Heaven."
Brad
