I too moved many times in mulitiple states and thought of my family as fairly recent immigrants. It was not until I joined the Church and began doing family history that I discovered the most recent immigrant arrived in this country in 1741 and most of the others had come in the 1600s. After having completed ordinances for so many of my ancestors, I know they are supporting me from the other side of the veil, and no matter how rootless my mortal journey has been, I have a home to return to one of these fine days.
StevenMarch 9, 2017
What a beautiful message! I love how your search for home lead to Family History and the Temple -- where Heaven and Earth meet!
Thank you for the thoughts about your father and how you feel you ongoing love and support! That was very touching!
SteveMarch 9, 2017
What a beautiful message! It brought tears to my eyes.
I love how the search of a lifetime led to Family History and the Temple -- where Heaven and Earth meet.
Thank you for the heartfelt thoughts of your father, and of his continued existence and love and proximity.
Very inspiring and Comforting!
Ty PritchettMarch 5, 2017
Wonderfully written essay. You have a great talent.
DianeMarch 2, 2017
I'm not looking for "paradise", but just as the song states--I have "more longing for home"...We all want and need a place to be anchored to, somewhere we feel we "belong". Thank you for this article!
MargieMarch 2, 2017
Thanks for your sharing your family history and life journey (not DeWaine's or anyone else's).
BobbiMarch 2, 2017
I've felt the same way and found, through family research and temple work, a belonging to much more than my immediate family and surroundings. It's a family of love and God's love. I loved the essay.
Rachel ElizabethMarch 2, 2017
Lovely essay. Thank you for sharing your experiences. I am a believer that family history work teaches us much about ourselves, and it binds us to family as we reach for them. It is also a reminder of the heavenly home we will share with them. These words of Wordsworth popped into my head as I was reading: "Trailing clouds of glory do we come/ From God, who is our home... The homely nurse [Earth] doth all she can/ To make her foster-child, her Inmate Man, /Forget the glories he hath known, /And that imperial palace whence he came."
RhianMarch 2, 2017
A very sweet essay.
DeWaineMarch 2, 2017
Grow up. Enjoy your life in living it. Stop trying to find "paradise"
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JLMarch 20, 2017
I too moved many times in mulitiple states and thought of my family as fairly recent immigrants. It was not until I joined the Church and began doing family history that I discovered the most recent immigrant arrived in this country in 1741 and most of the others had come in the 1600s. After having completed ordinances for so many of my ancestors, I know they are supporting me from the other side of the veil, and no matter how rootless my mortal journey has been, I have a home to return to one of these fine days.
StevenMarch 9, 2017
What a beautiful message! I love how your search for home lead to Family History and the Temple -- where Heaven and Earth meet! Thank you for the thoughts about your father and how you feel you ongoing love and support! That was very touching!
SteveMarch 9, 2017
What a beautiful message! It brought tears to my eyes. I love how the search of a lifetime led to Family History and the Temple -- where Heaven and Earth meet. Thank you for the heartfelt thoughts of your father, and of his continued existence and love and proximity. Very inspiring and Comforting!
Ty PritchettMarch 5, 2017
Wonderfully written essay. You have a great talent.
DianeMarch 2, 2017
I'm not looking for "paradise", but just as the song states--I have "more longing for home"...We all want and need a place to be anchored to, somewhere we feel we "belong". Thank you for this article!
MargieMarch 2, 2017
Thanks for your sharing your family history and life journey (not DeWaine's or anyone else's).
BobbiMarch 2, 2017
I've felt the same way and found, through family research and temple work, a belonging to much more than my immediate family and surroundings. It's a family of love and God's love. I loved the essay.
Rachel ElizabethMarch 2, 2017
Lovely essay. Thank you for sharing your experiences. I am a believer that family history work teaches us much about ourselves, and it binds us to family as we reach for them. It is also a reminder of the heavenly home we will share with them. These words of Wordsworth popped into my head as I was reading: "Trailing clouds of glory do we come/ From God, who is our home... The homely nurse [Earth] doth all she can/ To make her foster-child, her Inmate Man, /Forget the glories he hath known, /And that imperial palace whence he came."
RhianMarch 2, 2017
A very sweet essay.
DeWaineMarch 2, 2017
Grow up. Enjoy your life in living it. Stop trying to find "paradise"
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