Looking Up

We had Lynn's daughter Heidi and her family with us this last week and took them downtown Detroit.  It is always interesting to visit the large cities.  Detroit, like most, has a history of ethnic groups who settled in various sections of the city.  Each had it's church and the community grew up around the church.  The church by design was an unspoken symbol with its spire reaching skyward.  To look upward was to see that spire pointing you toward God.

But time passed and as industries grew and new buildings grew taller and taller.  Here is a typical inner city church dwarfed by its neighbors. You can see these in any of our large cities.

This poem reminds us that today there is a longing for things spiritual.  We are tired of the race of life with its empty promises.  We long to remember who we really are and the purpose of our earthly existence.  For us who are LDS, we have found a place to be spiritually fed; a place where we partake of the living waters.  We find great peace in the temples of the Lord.