Our ancestors have recommended that we are carefully exposed to specific kinds of music, art, food, landscapes, cultures, and climates. Things are rich in what they can offer the soul, but in order to enjoy that richness we must learn to enjoy things in moderation and use them with great discernment. When we gather our family histories and go to the temple on behalf of our ancestors, God fulfills promised blessings simultaneously on both sides of the veil. Family relationships can be some of the most rewarding yet challenging experiences we encounter. Many of us have faced a fracture of some sort within our families. However, when your heart is frozen, it has to melt, and there must be a determination to repair the breach. We know that God, our Father, is involved in the influential plan to heal our relationships. Despite our unshakable testimonies, our love for our ancestors has to be the catalyst to heal a rift, mend a hurt, and seek and extend forgiveness. It is the nature of spirit to give. Spirit is the essence of life as well as the intelligence back of everything. It is complete and perfect within itself. It is all-powerful and all-presence. When God directs us to do one thing, he often has many purposes in mind, which can be a blessing for the living, and provide the power to heal that which needs healing. #RandolphHarris 1 of 6

As we care for our souls, it might include a recovery of formal religion in a way that is both intellectually and emotionally satisfying. We have nothing to offer nature other than a willingness to cooperate with her laws. If we are to demonstrate that the divine gifts are a principle in the Universe, then we must increase influence of the Holy Ghost to feel strength and direction for our own live and learn the motivation to repent. An understanding of who we are, where we come from, gives us a clearer vision of where we are going. It is also important to exercise an increased refining, sanctifying and moderating the influences of our hearts. The divine gift is from eternity to eternity. Many great souls have, through faith, increased assistance to men troubled, broken, or stressed hearts and make the wounded whole. They have received blessings directly and constantly from the divine bounty. The spirit of God not only gives but it also creates the channel through which we are blessed with increased personal revelations and peace, which will fortify our commitment to stay on the covenant path. Meaningful growth occurs going backward and forward through the generations as sealing ordinances weld families together. We need have no sense of unworthiness, nor should we fall under the illusion that it is spiritual to be poor, nor the equally wrong thought the people who happen to possess enough of this World’s goods to make life comfortable are unholy. #RandolphHarris 2 of 6

Beliefs in paranormal powers—or echoes of them—remain central to our cultural institutions at every level. They are there as an elite opinion, there en masse. They continue to run right through our art and entertainment, our music, painting, literature, architecture, theatre, and cinema. They dominate or calendars. They are invoked in all our rites of passage—at weddings, births, and funerals. Paranormal beliefs follow us to school, on to the sports field, on the battle ground, in and out of love. Our beliefs in the spiritual even creep into our beds and keep us wide eyed in the night. Many, probably the majority, of the public figures whom we look up to—the princes, presidents, popes, pop stars, parliamentarians, press barons, prime-time presenters, prima donnas, premier league players, and so forth, who act as society’s opinion formers—acknowledge by words or actions their own acceptance of paranormal ethos. So many people are interested in the supernatural because they have an interest in there being two domains—that beyond the World of what s visible lies the possibility that there might be something else, if only we could one could get the right entrance. Before our request was made—in the beginning—the state of being already existed which made possible the fulfillment of our desires. There were no prior conditions to impose themselves upon the creation of our desire. #RandolphHarris 3 of 6

What is rare indeed is to find any public figure disavowing paranormality entirely. At the level of more everyday interactions with our peers, the weight of popular opinion is heavily pro-paranormal. Indeed, with at least two-thirds of ordinary people being confirmed believers in spiritual powers, the likelihood that a person will come under pressure from one’s friend and family is very high. One the basis of the figure from the opinion polls, we can estimate that in Britain the chance, for example, of a man marrying a woman who is a believer is 79 percent, the chance of his having at least one parent who is a believer is over 90 percent, and the chance of one finding oneself sitting  with a believer when one joins two other couples at a café table is 99 percent. The spirit is absolutely without limit; nothing has ever imposed any restriction upon it; God knows no limitation, no limiting circumstances. And since those who believe are more likely to speak up than those who do not (it is the believers, after all, who have all the best tunes) the probability that a lunchtime conversation will be biased in the paranormal direction remains overwhelming. As thou hast believed, so be it done unto thee. The law of faith tells us we will receive a direct benefit by believing in God even though some of us many not completely understand its intricate mechanics. Blind faith is based more or less on superstition which is still an affirmative attitude in the law.  #RandolphHarris 4 of 6

The law of God is perfect, freedom, charity, and must reply to faith. However, it is better when faith becomes understanding, for it is then that faith becomes perfect. We have to have faith in God, and this allows us to fulfill the divine abundance. Law and faith come together. The bowl of acceptance is held up and the outpouring of the spirit is measured into the individual experience according to the law of mental equivalents, which says that whatever we inwardly conceive, we outwardly experience. This is because the externa is merely a reflection of the internal. Faith is not trying to compel the mind to accept something which it denies. It is merely causing the mind to see why it may believe in that which it affirms. All we have to do is to look about on nature to reassure ourselves that there is a creative power at work and that the entire physical Universe proceeds from an invisible source, which it God. God, in his infinite capacity, seals and heals individuals and families despite tragedy, loss, and hardship. We sometimes compare the feelings we experience in temples as having caught a glimpse of Heaven. Mortals say of some temporal sufferings, no future bliss can make up for it, not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory. The blessed will say, “We have never lived anywhere expect Heaven.” #RandolphHarris 5 of 6

In our case the instrument is our faith, belief, acceptance, mental equivalent, spiritual embodiment, understanding of the meaning of the words we use in prayer. Our mental attitude toward the divine gift should be one of acceptance. We are to look forward to it with anticipation and with enthusiastic attention. We are to maintain an inner joy. And why not—if we are to realize that the divine energy is a gift of perfect laws of liberty, forever made, and if the divine will is the outpouring of the spirit into self-expression through us–? Let us, then, receive the gift! God will strengthen, help, and uphold us; and he will sanctify to us our deepest distress. When we gather our family histories and go to the temple on behalf of our ancestors, God fulfills many of these promised blessings for mortals and those now living eternal life. Although we can be inspired all day long about temple and family history experiences others have had, we must also do something to actually experience the joy ourselves. As we draw closer to God, we will discover, gather, and correct our family and ourselves. Additionally, blessings will flow to us and open up our hearts to the divine love that is radiating from God, and we will find healing for whatever needs to be healed. Because of these blessings, we find that, spiritually, we have never lived anywhere expect Heaven. #RandolphHarris 6 of 6