My CMS The View from a New City

take a look at this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgpfhIEXctQ

Here is an extended excerpt from the book, Four Thousand Weeks, Time Management for Mortals, by Oliver Burkeman:

What I can confirm, though, is that if you can adopt the outlook we’re exploring here even just a little–if you can hold your attention, however briefly or occasionally, on the sheer astonishingness of being and on what small amount of being you get–you may experience a palpable shift in how it feels to be here, right now, alive in the flow of time…From an everyday standpoint, the fact that life is finite feels like a terrible insult, “a sort of personal affront, a taking away of one’s time.” in the words of one scholar. There you were, planning to live on forever–as the old Woody Allen line has it, not in the hearts of your countrymen, but in your apartment–but now here comes mortality to steal away the life that was rightfully yours.

Yet on reflection, there’s something very entitled about this attitude. Why assume that an infinite supply of time is the default, and mortality an outrageous violation? …Surely only somebody who’d failed to notice how remarkable it is that anything is, in the first place, would take their own being as a given–as if it were something they had every right to have conferred upon them, and never to have taken away. So maybe it’s not that you’ve been cheated out of an unlimited supply of time, maybe it’s almost incomprehensibly miraculous to have been granted any time at all.

The Lord’s Prayer is one of the most widely used scriptures in the Bible, and yet it continues to reveal truth. It occurred to me in the middle of the night, last night, that the prayer is in the plural. “deliver us from evil,” not deliver me from evil. Is salvation a family affair?

In his first address as the leader of the Church, President Dallin H. Oaks said the following: “We can truly say that the gospel plan was first taught to us in the council of an eternal family, it is implemented through our mortal families, and its intended destiny is to exalt the children of God in eternal families.”

The Bible says their is no giving in marriage in heaven. That is because marriage is a ordinance which must be performed on earth. Their is no baptism in heaven, but baptism is required to get to heaven. If it is not performed on earth, it must be performed by proxy in an earthly temple. it symbolizes death, burial and resurrection. Actions that require mortality. Where possible, the temples are constructed so that the surface of the water in the font is on a plane with the surface of the earth into which persons are buried and from which they are resurrected.

Similar issues apply with establishing and sealing families. See the phrase from President Oaks’ talk where he says exaltation in eternal families “is implemented through our mortal families.”