Excerpt
Life is fragile.
But friendship makes it lasting.
Intro
This reflection is about grief, friendship, and the doctrine of eternal relationships found in Doctrine and Covenants 130:2.
There are moments in life when doctrine stops being theory
and becomes something you feel in your bones.
This week, I attended a funeral for a young man taken suddenly in the mountains.
He was 31.
As I stood in an overcrowded chapel,
I realized I was not witnessing a tragedy.
I was witnessing the measurement of a life.
Notes from the Scriptures
“That same sociality which exists among us here
will exist among us there,
only it will be coupled with eternal glory.”
— Doctrine and Covenants 130:2
This is one of the quietest promises in all of scripture.
Not about time.
Not about power.
Not about reward.
About relationships.
Perspective (Direct Quote)
“That same sociality…”
Not ended.
Not erased.
Not forgotten.
Only continued.
Practice Today (Not Someday)
We only live once.
But with kindness,
with friendship,
with being friendly when it is easier to be distant,
we can make our life live twice.
Once in our own body.
And again in the lives of others.
Final Reflection
Some people try to make their life long.
Some try to make it successful.
But the best lives are the ones that are wide.
Wide with friends.
Wide with people helped.
Wide with quiet acts of goodness no one records.
Life is fragile.
But a friendly life is never short.
Pocket I’m Keeping
You do not control how long you live.
You only control how you treat people while you are alive.
What I Hear Now
“That same sociality…”
The friendships you build here
are not temporary.
They are eternal.
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