POINT IN THE FUTURE
cewhendry 12 Aug 2017
Imagine a point in the future
When time as we know it is done.
Close your eyes. Lift your head to the heavens.
See yourself as you first meet God's son.
Are you glad for improving your talents?
For finding the names of your dead?
Are you feeling so very embarrassed that
You sat by the TV instead?
Are you pleased with the gardens you tended?
Are you mad that you didn't forgive?
Are you shamed for the times that you
Couldn't just
Let go
To live and let live?
Are you satisfied with all your efforts
To fulfill each assignment received?
Are you grateful you didn't spread gossip
Of things you had heard or believed?
Imagine a point in the future
When time as we know it is done.
Close your eyes. Lift your head to the heavens.
See yourself as you first meet God's son.
Are there memories of temple endowments
That bound all your family to him?
Do regrets of lost temper surround you,
When kindness and love faded dim?
Are there verses of scripture you've captured
That carried you forward when lost?
Are there friends that you knew you could count on?
Are there prayers when you counted the cost?
Imagine a point in the future
When time as we know it is done.
Close your eyes. Lift your head to the heavens.
See yourself as you first meet God's son.
Did you plan famous actions of valor
When you knew that your life could be more?
Did you fade into sorrow with failure?
Was your visiting teaching a chore?
Did you know that our Heavenly Father,
His Son, and so many folks more
Would be waiting to love you and thank you
As you opened that celestial door?
Imagine a point in the future
When time as we know it is done.
Close your eyes. Lift your head to the heavens.
See yourself as you first meet God's son.
--Carolyn Hendry
From a talk given in Sacrament Meeting.
