Linking Our Families

Throughout the world in these the latter days,
The Lord is building temples to hasten his ways.
The work performed within the sacred walls,
Is linking his children who will heed his calls.

To seal, to bind, to build an endless family chain,
Is his life’s work and glory and ever shall remain.
Linking and sealing his children in one eternal blend,
Builds and links us all together to that very end.

From Father to brother, from sister to mother,
The work will not end, until binding to one another,
Has been completed, and all families it will mend,
Until that day when he shall claim, his work will not end.

When every child of God engages in his work sublime,
Becomes a partner with the Savior to link and to bind,
The work will move forward with miraculous speed,
When each of us helps our family in their eternal need.

The dead who died without the covenants required,
Now have the chance to accept his will no longer mired,
Freed at last from the irony of times ill-fated existence,
Brings about a newness of life to close the distance.

Linking together forever in one big family tree,
Building, melding and blending as one for all eternity.
As saviors on mount Zion, fulfilling the mandate divine,
Uniting fathers, mothers, daughters and sons to combine.

David S. Maughan© 5/2/2021

Malachi 4:6; 3 Nephi 25:6; D&C 130:2; 131:2; 138:48