We Can Return and Receive God's Blessings

My favorite part of Elder M. Russell Ballard's talk, Return and Receive, is when he testified that we can return and receive:

Despite our mistakes, shortcomings, detours, and sins, Jesus Christ’s Atonement allows us to repent, prepared to return and receive the matchless blessings God has promised—to live forever with the Father and the Son in the highest degree of the celestial kingdom.

God has prepared great blessings for us, and He is eager for us to receive them, but to do that, we must become worthy to return to the Celestial Kingdom. This is challenging because we all have made sins that disqualify us from being worthy in our own rights, but mercifully, God has prepared a way for us to repent, to turn away from our sins and return to His presence so we can receive all the blessings He has in store for us.

I am thankful for God's mercy and for His gracious plan that allows us, through repentance and the power of Christ's Atonement, to become clean from our sins so we can return to our heavenly home and receive the blessings that are waiting for us there. We truly are blessed that God and His Son, Jesus Christ, have made it possible for us to return and receive.