Exaltation is a Family Matter

While in Washington, DC, this past week, I stayed at a riverfront hotel east of the city in a newly developed area called National Harbor. Early each morning I took a solitary walk along the shoreline while listening to conference talks on my iPod.

One morning, I was particularly impressed with this comment by Elder Nelson:

"In God’s eternal plan, salvation is an individual matter; exaltation is a family matter.

"As children of the covenant, we have met in this morning’s solemn assembly. Attention has been focused upon the sacred titles of prophets and apostles. But the final responsibility to prepare for salvation and exaltation rests upon each person, accountable for individual agency, acting in one’s own family, bearing another sacred title of mother, father, daughter, son, grandmother, or grandfather."

Russell M. Nelson, Salvation and Exaltation, April 2008 General Conference, Saturday morning session.

We are all in this together. While each of us certainly has responsibility to gain individual testimony and individually learn how to claim the promised blessings of the atonement, all of us in the Dent-Dixon family have the sacred responsibility to assist and lift and bless the lives of each other. It is extremely heartening to me to see this happening, day in and day out, within our family. Somehow, I think that is the sealing power in action, operational within our family, helping us all in our collective effort to return home to God.

Love,

Dad/Mark