While preparing for my seminary lesson , I was deeply touched to find this quote in the seminary lesson .
“After leaving Nauvoo, [Catherine], ever delicate and frail, sank rapidly under the ever accumulating hardships. The sorrowing husband wrote imploringly to the wife’s parents, asking them to receive her into their home until the Saints should find an abiding place. The answer came, ‘Let her renounce her degrading faith and she can come back, but never until she does.’
“When the letter was read to her, she asked her husband to get his Bible and to turn to the book of Ruth and read the first chapter, sixteenth and seventeenth verses: ‘Entreat me not to leave thee or to return from following after thee; for whither thou goest I will go, and where thou lodgest I will lodge. Thy people shall be my people and thy God my God’” (Memoirs of John R. Young: Utah Pioneer 1847 [1920], 17–18). Catherine Spencer died shortly thereafter.”
My fourth great grandfather is Orson Spencer, his daughter Aurelia, his Grandaughter Minnie Spencer Depew, my great Grandmother.

Gratefully, the sublimity of the week’s events does not end on the cross, but it does end in an empty tomb, a gloriously,  magnificently empty tomb.

Because the tomb is empty, the promise of eternal life is not.

From the words of the beautiful video provided on lds.org, I quote;
“He lives and because He lives we will live again, too.
Because of Him
Death has no sting
The grave no victory
Because of Him,
We can start again and again and again
Guilt becomes peace
Regret becomes relief
Despair becomes hope
Because of Him,
We have new beginnings,
And there is no such thing as the end.
Because of Him”

To quote Elder Jeffrey R. Holland o th Quorum of the Twelve Apostles (April 2019)
Because of Him we are offered “a way out and a way up.”

May we find ourselves ever looking up ,, humbling kneeling down in reverence to all that is Holy, even Him, Jesus Christ

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