A Destiny of Glory

In the concluding talk of the Saturday Morning Session of the October 2018 General Conference, President Dallin H. Oaks said many important and blogworthy things, but this paragraph is one of my favorites:

God’s love is so great that, except for the few who deliberately become sons of perdition, He has provided a destiny of glory for all of His children. . . . The purpose of the Church of Jesus Christ is to qualify His children for the highest degree of glory, which is exaltation or eternal life. For those who do not desire or qualify for that, God has provided other, though lesser, kingdoms of glory.

I am comforted by the fact that there is a kingdom of glory prepared for almost everyone who has ever lived. If even most of the worst people who ever lived will be given a decent afterlife, there's plenty of hope for the rest of us. God is not going to leave any of us out. When we pass on, we are each going on to a better place, guaranteed.

Life is alright, but I'm glad it's temporary, and I'm glad to have an assurance that the life ahead of us is better than the life we'll be leaving behind.