I have loved thee with an everlasting love

I never will leave you I will never for sake you

Hebrews 13:5

It’s so hard to ever forget someone who gave us so much to remember.

Because every second He Loves You

I have loved thee with an everlasting love.

Jeremiah 31:3

“In considering such beauty of the át-one-ment’ in that first Easter season, we are reminded that the relationship between Christ and His Father is one of the sweetest and most moving themes running through the Savior’s ministry. Jesus’ entire being, His complete purpose and delight, were centered in pleasing His Father and obeying His will. Of Him He seemed always to be thinking; to Him He seemed always to be praying. Unlike us, He needed no crisis, no discouraging shift in events to direct His hopes heavenward. He was already instinctively, longingly looking that way. In all His mortal ministry Christ seems never to have had a single moment of vanity or self-interest. When one young man tried to call Him ‘good,’ He deflected the compliment, saying only one was deserving of such praise, His Father.”

Jeffrey R. Holland

“Tears came to my eyes when I read of a mere boy in one of our eastern cities who noticed a vagrant asleep on a sidewalk and who then went to his own room, retrieved his own pillow, and placed it beneath the head of that one whom he knew not. Perhaps there came from the precious past the welcome words: ‘Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me’

Thomas S. Monson

“…Even as we should think on the name of Christ more often, and use it more wisely and well, how tragic it is, and how deeply we are pained, that the name of the Savior of mankind has become one of the most common and most ill-used of profanities. In this Easter season of the year-when we are reminded yet again of all Christ has done for us, how dependent we are upon his redeeming grace and personal resurrection, and how singular his name is in the power to dispel evil and death and save the human soul-may we all do more to respect and revere his holy name and gently, courteously encourage others to do the same… We love the name of our Redeemer. May we redeem it from misuse to its rightful lofty position.”

Howard W. Hunter

“Christ was abused and beaten. His head was crowned with sharp and platted thorns; a mocking robe of purple was thrown upon His bleeding back. Again He was taken before Pilate, to whom the mob cried, ‘Crucify him, crucify him’. With stumbling steps He walked the way to Golgotha, where His wounded body was nailed to the cross in the most inhumane and pain-ridden method of execution that sadistic minds could conjure. Yet He cried out, ‘Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do’. The hours passed as His life ebbed in pain. The earth shook; the veil of the temple was rent. From His parched lips came the words, ‘Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost’ It was over. His mortal life was finished. He had offered it as a ransom for all.”

Gordon B. Hinckley

In God’s hands even the things that have broken us can be used by Him

to make us whole again.

“Even as He moved toward the Crucifixion, He restrained His Apostles who would have intervened by saying, ‘The cup which my Father hath given me, shall I not drink it?’ When that unspeakable ordeal was finished, He uttered what must have been the most peaceful and deserved words of His mortal ministry. At the end of His agony, He whispered, ít is finished: … Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit.’ Finally it was over. Finally He could go home. I confess that I have reflected at length upon that moment and the resurrection which was shortly to follow it. I have wondered what that reunion must have been like: the Father that loved this Son so much, the Son that honored and revered His Father in every word and deed. For two who were one as these two were one, what must that embrace have been like? What must that divine companionship be yet? We can only wonder and admire. And we can, on an Easter weekend,

yearn to live worthily of some portion of that relationship ourselves.”

Jeffrey R. Holland