Family Sealing in Temple

[Keaghansgm]

I am trying to come up with something "poetic" I guess would be the word, for a family that has just been sealed in the Temple. I have found some great scriptures for it, but really can't think of anything other than that to add, as I've never experienced even being in The Temple, but I want them to know how wonderful it must have felt and how much it has enririched not just this life, but all eternity. If anybody has any ideas, I would tryly appreciate the help.

thank you so much for helping me out with this.

[Mute]

What happens when a family is sealed together? I was very young when my family was sealed. I can't remember what takes place. The only thing I remember from it was sitting in the cafeteria and that obviously wasn't part of the sealing.

[Just_A_Guy]

Mute, basically, the husband and wife kneel across from each other at the altar while the "sealer" performs the ceremony sealing them to each other; then they bring in the children and they all hold hands around the altar while the sealer performs a separate ceremony sealing the children to the parents. The whole thing might take ten minutes, tops.

I was a few months old when I was sealed to my parents--don't remember a thing, but (allegedly) I screamed the whole time.

Keaghansgm - maybe do something with the following quote from Parley P. Pratt?

I had loved before, but I knew not why. But now I loved—with a pureness an intensity of elevated, exalted feeling, which would lift my soul from the transitory things of this grovelling sphere and expand it as the ocean. I felt that God was my heavenly Father indeed; that Jesus was my brother, and that the wife of my bosom was an immortal, eternal companion; a kind ministering angel, given to me as a comfort, and a crown of glory for ever and ever. In short, I could now love with the spirit and with the understanding also.

--Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt, 260.

[nmdesertrose]

My brother and I were both adopted and our family was sealed together when I was six. I remember after the sealing my dad lifted me up so I could look into the mirrors on either side of the altar. They are right across from each other so when you face the mirror and look into it you can see "forever." So as we stood there as a family and gazed it seemed as though we went on for an eternity. It was pretty amazing - that's what I remember :)

(Also, they always tell the people who volunteer to clean the temple not to look in those mirrors while vacuuming because it will appear as though they'll be stuck vacuuming for an eternity )