It’s 1 A.M. Today is Easter.
I tried teaching my children about the Atonement of Jesus Christ while driving home from Mesquite yesterday. I’m not sure it went super well. They are young enough still that they have a lot of life left to learn and grown and explore just what the atonement is. I tried to explain that it fills holes in our lives to help us become what we are meant to become. Holes that otherwise leave us scarred and damaged. Holes that can’t be fixed in any other way. I don’t think they recognize the ways in which the Atonement of Jesus Christ has already filled holes in their lives and continues to do so. It brings to mind a memory where I was walking with my daughter one night when she told me how she has no idea how she was able to be as happy as she was that first year after divorce. She may not recognize it, but holes were being filled. Only the Savior can do that for us.
I tried to explain that Christ suffered all things “in the flesh,” just as we do, so that He could know us and help us and guide us and love us completely. Sometimes we just need to be loved simply for who we are. Loneliness is real. My children will feel that at some point in their lives. I hope they know the Savior is the only one who knows exactly what they are feeling, that they are not alone, and this, because of the Atonement of Jesus Christ.
Saying I am grateful will never fully express all that I feel inside for my Savior, for His obedience, for His love, for His choice to sacrifice for all of us, but … it is all that I have.
Forever grateful!!!
