smylie

I have been taught that in Heaven we will all love one another as we love our families now, that we will all be the family of Christ, but will recognize people we had earthly relationships with. I guess because of my new found closeness with husband (after many hours of discussions, confessions, forgivnesses, and reconnecting) I want it to be just the way it is FOREVER.

Hi, Please don't think I am asking these questions with any negative undertones. I ask with the utmost respect to everyone here and sincerely hope I don't offend. I have been studying the Mormon religion for awhile, (trying to "find my way", I guess) but still have lots of questions. There are a few things I don't want to ask my LDS friends for fear of offending. One thing that concerns me is that the couple of times I've visited the local ward, every speaker started out stating that they know the church is true. I heard alot about what role the church had played in their lives, and the importance of Joseph Smith, but very little, if anything, about Jesus, God or the Holy Spirit. It all seemed to be about the church itself, instead of a relationship and understanding of the ways of God and what he wants for/from us. Did I just attend on the wrong day? Also, the teaching that if one is excommunicated from the church, that God "takes away" his promise of sealing them to their families if they were sealed. A friend of mine was threatend with excommunication when he was 17 for an indiscretion. He was told that if he did it again, he would be. I don't understand how someone from the local ward can decide what will happen to someones eternal soul, let alone give them "another chance". One more thing, I have always been taught that families will be together, and husband and wife, if married by a man of God, transcends death, the two are one in God's eyes, because you have made a vow to God. You may get divorced in by a civil court, but you are commiting adultry in the eyes of God if you are "with" another person. Does the Mormon faith acknowledg this for other religions, or do you believe that everyone who is not Mormon will not be with any loved ones in any way. I understand 'sealing' in the Mormon faith, it's what you believe happens to the families who are not sealed by ceremony, but by love and faith in God, that I'm curious about. For those of you who were kind enough to answer my last post. Thank you. I have resolved much in the past few days! My family is stronger than ever before and I believe with such peace that we are forever, eventhough we are not Mormon. Thank you for your advice, it was taken! Again, please don't think I am being sarcastic or argumentative. It truely is not my intent. Thanks! S

Yes I do know this, I am very blessed. I do pray for the Heavenly Father to make these feelings go away. Eventhough I have never cheated on my husband physically, I guess I have emotionally for letting thoughts of someones else even enter my mind. I do have a burden on my heart beacause of that. He has heard some about the church, but was raised Methodist. We met with the missionaries a couple times. The subject of Kolob came up with some of our LDS friends who I feel VERY comfortable just asking any question to, and he was alittle bewildered. I've been studying the church for a long time, so it didn't "throw" me like it did him. Just talking about him makes me want to go hug him and thank him for be such a great husband. Thank you for that.

As I was typing I was thinking," I know how this sounds. It sounds like I'm a crazy, obsessed, crackpot!" I'm not I promise! I don't mean that I am so overwhelmed by thoughts of my ex that I can't function, he just crosses my mind more often than he should. All the thoughts and feelings I put in my post are a concentrated version of thoughts and feelings built up over all these years. I don't want anyone to think I'm planning to leave my husband, I couldn't hurt him like that. I do love him I just don't want to confuse residule feelings for an old flame with an important message I'm supposed to be recieveing from God. I am on a serious soul searching, personal inventory, what it all about, who is God, odyssey (I guess you'd call it) and I have got to deal with feelings for my ex once and for all. So I put EVERYTHING out there to get insight from all angles. Thank you for your reply. Oh, and I'll be singing that song all night ...thanks alot! I don't even know but about 3 lines of it!

Thank you to all who have answered.