Hope for Each Day Morning and Evening Devotions Words of Wisdom and Faith (730 Daily Devotions)

And I know it comes up on my feet there is a podcast called Why Religion Hank I think you just recorded one with him called mourning with hope can you tell us about that yeah I was actually on the other side of the microphone which was really weird John I was like I'm not supposed to talk you're supposed to talk did you miss me during that was like where I was looking around seeing your companion a number of years ago I wrote a chapter in a book called Morning with Hope so the Why Religion team decided to highlight that article and just release that that would really be special to me if anyone wanted to listen after this episode of course you can go to YouTube and go to Why Religion the letter Why not Why Religion if I get some other videos of you type in Why Religion other post is the letter Why Religion that chapter was the culmination of a couple of years study that I did on how letter they say to deal with death it's not that we don't mourn that would be a myth that would be a mistake to say oh my testimony means I don't need to mourn so I called the chapter mourning with hope the following podcast is a supporter of the Why Religion podcast so we hope everyone will go check that out a lot of our guests that we've had on our show have been on that one as well right now I was going to tell you as you talked about mourning with those who mourn back in 2014 my mother-in-law Marlene Savage passed away we were all devastated she's this incredible grandmother and mother we were sitting there on a Saturday a couple of days after she passed away and we were kind of in shock there but not there well all of a sudden I hear my lawn mower start up and I'm like what is going on I went out on the side door and I looked out on my lawn and there is my father who was since best away mowing the lawn and he saw me and waved and I waved back I said what are you doing and he said helping he mowed the lawn he edged the lawn and then he got in his car and drove away he didn't feel like it was time for him to come inside and fix it there's nothing he could have said that would have fixed it what would Alma call that or our burden that it may be light yeah well that reminds me of the story of Jesus says to the woman she has done what she could I remember a story Hank do you remember this one right now about somebody it was repeated in general conference but somebody who came and grabbed everybody shoes and shined up all of the shoes before the funeral the kids the adults came in quietly shined the shoes and left that's beautiful to think that we can actually minister to people without saying yeah the word your dad was loud with the lawn mower right but he didn't say a lot of new work he would eat it quietly yes that is great going back to the story of Lazarus even the Savior wept because when he saw Martha and Mary's sadness they were sad because they loved their brother and the Savior cried with them he went with them he knew how to mourn that's why it is a natural thing it's a normal thing to do if someone is listening to this and they feel bad because they are mourning that shows you love that person that left and that is part of this life but there is hope because we mourn with hope and there is a difference when we have that hope that we are gonna see them again and because of the Savior I was talking with the good friend the other day and she said her father had passed away a couple of years ago and she said I should be better by now everyone else has gone on everyone else is doing great and I should be better and I like what you've said here Reina let the process take its course for you personally it's gonna look different right for everyone yes we can be certain that the Lord is willing to help us heal from that and that he has the power to help us but that doesn't mean that we are going to stop missing the person because it's a big loss they are not with us we want to have them with us but they are not here and it's hard to wait sometimes but we have that hope and that's what needs to help us that's why having all these scriptures and these witnesses that talk about this and give us that assurance it actually happened that the Lord was resurrected and because of that each of us will be resurrected I love reading the words of the prophets in the scriptures I'm always amazed to see how well they understood the plan of salvation and how well they understood the role of the Savior and how each of them are always inviting us to come to him so we can actually be also his witnesses that's fantastic the first witness of the resurrection Mary Magdalene so distraught weeping right in the first thing he says to her woman why weepest thou in the sense of what is about to happen that is such a perfect question why are you weeping and then her whole world changes our whole world changes when he calls her by name everybody's world it was a great gift that he gave us part of that work of our heavenly Father to bring about the salvation and eternal life of all of us it's just part of that perfect gift that he gave us and everybody will receive that as we read in the scriptures everybody every person will receive that gift of resurrection from the Savior coming up in part two of this episode you spent five years in a release society general presidency where you were around special witnesses the apostles it was wonderful to see the different personalities and I always tell people you would never guess who I think of course this is my personal opinion who I think is the funniest of all of them and I honestly believe that is