There is a longing within me that is universally known among people everywhere and addressed by all religions. I call it homesickness. We miss home - our heavenly home from which we came. We miss our heavenly parents and the love we knew with them. At times during my life that longing has been acute and always pushes me to want to have divine communion with God. I have learned that such communion is readily available. God does hear and answer our prayers. He lets us know in very real ways that He is there and that He loves us. Isn’t that amazing! God knows me and loves me. God is my loving Heavenly Father. I am a daughter of a Heavenly Father who loves me and I love Him. These truths have become the essence of who I am and how I live my life. I am very grateful to have found them.
There is another aspect to homesickness. Home was wonderful and beautiful. We lived with God the Almighty in a place where goodness abounded. That reality is etched in our memory. I try to recreate it in the little world I have here on earth. Most of us do. Just look at how women around the world work so hard to make their homes a place of beauty.
But the world we live in is also filled with so much that is bad. War, famine, terrorism, random evil fill our daily news stories. And in response, you find so many good people who are doing everything they can to help those in need. That vision of the way things ought to be is very real in our minds. We seem to instinctively know that life is supposed to be good and we work very hard to make it so. Some call this the universal consciousness. I believe along with Latter-days everywhere that it is just our deepest memory, reminding us of that place where we used to be and for which we will always strive.
