Temple Touching

These pictures are really horrible quality, taken with my phone at night, but I still wanted to document this moment. We took the girls up to the LDS Washington DC Temple to see the Christmas lights. Unfortunately the lights weren't on yet, but we still took advantage of the beautiful sight of the Temple. 

David took the girls to touch the Temple doors, as we each held onto the handles, he stated how important the Temple was to him and how he hoped that one day they would each be able to enter those doors and feel the sacred spirit of the inside of the Temple. 

Here is a similar account taken from LDS Church New; Aug. 2008

    President Harold B. Lee spoke of two boys who brought their little brothers to touch the Salt Lake Temple. President Lee quoted from a note that a watchman, employed on Temple Square, had written about the youngsters' venture.

The watchman wrote that the boys, each about 7 or 8 years old, had come early one morning to Temple Square, pulling their brothers in little carts. One of the boys told the watchman that it was the birthday of his little brother Joe, and explained, "'He is two years old today, and I want him to touch the temple so that when he gets to be an old man he will remember he touched the temple when he was two years old.' "

    The boy pointed to the other toddler and said that his name was Mark, and that he was two years old, also.

    The watchman's note continued: "Then with a solemn, reverent attitude rare in children so young, he asked, 'Can we go over and touch the temple?' I replied, 'Sure you can.' They pushed their little carts over to the temple and lifted the infants up, and placed their hands against that holy building. Then as I stood there with a lump in my throat, I heard the little boy say to his infant brother, 'Now, Joe, you will always remember when you (were) two years old you touched the temple.' They thanked me and departed for home" (Given in an address at the April 1957 general conference, and reprinted in theEnsign, February 1971, p. 35).

    Some parents take their children to visit temple grounds, wanting the youngsters to feel of the spirit of the place, to sense its sacredness, to develop a love for temples.

Without doubt, these parents want their children not only to touch the temple when they are young but also, as they grow older, to be touched by the temple.

Yes, temples can touch us as much — more so — than we can touch them. When we go to a temple, we touch its solid surfaces, but the temple touches us on a deeper level. It touches the spirit.

May we ever yearn to be in the temple, the House of the Lord, and may be always be prepared to feel its touch in our lives.

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