My Savior, My Brother

I had a special feeling in the temple last week.  It was my first time to go to a session in 6 months, as my baby is 5 months old.  The new movie had my brain functioning in a different way, learning and pondering new things.  I imagined the grand council in heaven, all of us sitting around with the father discussing the plan and who was to be the Savior.  (It may have been way more formal than this, this is just the way I pictured it.)  It felt almost like a family sitting around in a family home evening, or a ward sacrament meeting with our father in heaven at the pulpit, and feelings of love, connection and familiarity with all of the people in the congregation.  In this meeting, Jesus Christ stood up and said, "Here am I, send me."  I imagine I felt so much love and admiration for him, and I also feel that I felt proud of him, as my sweet brother whom I knew and had seen progress.  I was proud and also happy for him that he would get to have this experience that would help him grow even more.

How must we have all felt in these moments about the missions WE were to fulfill on the earth?  How do we feel about our missions now?  Are we searching the spirit and our hearts to know what the Lord would have us do for the people around us?  Are we opening our mouths to all in our spheres so that we can be cleansed from "the blood and sins of this generation"?  (Or in other words so that the choices of those to whom we did not open our mouths, will not be upon our heads.)

  Could we extend the feelings of love and family that we must have felt in that counsel to the guy that cuts you off in the car, to the woman that yells at her kid in the store for doing almost nothing, and to the neighbor across the street who seems to want nothing to do with you?  Are we seeking the Lords will as to what he would have us do for these people?

"have ye ^aspiritually been ^bborn of God? Have ye received his image in your countenances? Have ye experienced this mighty ^cchange in your hearts?

And now behold, I say unto you, my brethren, if ye have experienced a ^achange of heart, and if ye have felt to sing the^bsong of redeeming love, I would ask, ^ccan ye feel so now?"

Alma 5:14,26

 I would ask, ^ccan ye feel so now?