The Sacrament

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Do you know what one of the most incredible feelings is in the whole world? When you take the sacrament and feel a literal cleansing of your soul. This doesn’t happen every single time for me, in fact this has probably only happened two or three times throughout my whole life. Today it happened. Today, I felt the physical cleansing of my thoughts and what has been weighing on my heart, today I felt lifted.

As I was noticing the difference in my feelings as I partook of the sacrament I tried to observe what has been happening around me that was different in order for me to recreate the feeling. This is what I came up with:

  1. My family was snowed in for church last week and were not instructed to give the sacrament within the home. The week before that my thoughts were all over as I strived to get wedding things done in time with my fiance in town for the weekend.
  2. Before participating in the sacrament meeting I had a meeting with my bishop in preparation for the wedding and my temple attendance.
  3. The speakers gave insightful speaches and were in tune with the spirit.
  4. The hymn was sung out loud instead of just being listened to for the first time since we went back to church in person through this pandemic.

This is the first time I’ve been able to sing a sacrament hymn before taking the sacrament in about a years time. I did not realize how meaningful it was before that privilege was taken away, the hymn really sets the tone.

We sang the song Reverently and Meekly Now, there’s a line in that song that talks about being constant to the Lord that He might be my Savior. I found so much comfort in this line of the hymn because I remembered that I have to choose Him and that is when I will be able to recognize His power in my life. And furthermore, I’ll be able to more fully access His power and feel His love as I do so.


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