Messenger

Two Spirits

Posted on 10/13/2009 at 10:57:04 AM

Two spirits in Celestial world
Stood apart from the heavenly throng;
A mighty love shone on each face,
In each heart was a heavenly song,

“Sister,” he said with a look of love,
“The hour at last has come,
That I may take the glorious step,
And have a mortal home.

Our love and association here,
Will bind our hearts below,
And, Darling, when I meet you there,
I’m sure our hearts will know.”

“I, too, am sure,” she gently said,
“The love that has bound us here
Will span the space ‘twixt heaven and earth
I’m sure I shall know you dear.

I’m sure that the mighty love we have
Will quicken our hearts below;
I’m sure I will meet and love you there
When my time shall come to go.”

“God grant it,” he said with a look of love
“If the Father has willed it so,
I shall meet and know and love you, dear,
In the life God has planned down below.

And further than this, by God’s great power,
Our union shall endless be;
Not only for mortal life, dear one,
But for all Eternity.”

His spirit passed to the home below
And she stood in the home above;
“Father,” she said, “may I meet there?
May our souls be bound with love?”

A Mortal Fulfillment

A man worked at his daily tasks
In a thoughtful, studied way;
Some long forgotten memory
Seemed to stir his heart that day.

A young woman had entered his life
Had come in from a moment then was gone
But the sight of her face and the sound of her voice
Stirred his heart like the strains of a song.

“I suppose I have never met her,
But it seems so strange to me,
It seems like I’ve known her always,
It’s that voice from eternity.

He learned to watch for her coming
And always when she had gone,
The same emotion arose within
“It seems like I’ve known her so long.”

The pure emotions were stirred,
The glance of her eyes,
Or the sound of her voice
Thrilled his heart like some music he’d heard.

Their associations were constant,
Their courtship a path of joy;
The sky of their life seemed cloudless
Pure love without alloy.

Slowly their lives grew together
Firmly their hearts bound with love;
Love which from God is eternal
Pure from the realms above.

At last came the day of union,
They stood in a thoughtful way;
For one with authority given of God
Was to bind their lives that day.

The sacred moment at last had come,
They knelt by the altar of heaven;
Their hands were clasped in a sacred grasp
From the throne of heaven given.

“She is yours for time and eternity”
Their union the Priesthood did commend.
“Yours for the countless ages,
Your union will never ever end.”

(Adapted from an anonymous poem)