Temple

Oh ye place of beauty and wonder.

Your majesty is as vast as the starry sky.
Your towering walls shimmer against the noon day sun and glow in the evening twilight, as a grand vestige, an ever present symbol of light and truth. A glorious union of ancient awe and wonder, coupled with modern and divine revelation, from He that stands at the helm of these great and marveling works of human craftsmanship. Built and assembled to bring back that which once was. Managed and maintained to bring forth all that is to come.

Your peace consumes the very threads and fibers of the soul, awakening and illuminating it as from a deep slumber. The love in which you house cannot be described but through the base and colorless words of humanity. Feelings that pen cannot write nor tongue express with enough eloquence, a feeling in which science cannot reproduce, nor theory calculate. That love which is as pure as the first snow, that love which is as definite as the billowing white clouds which drift across the clear blue sky above. Ever present, but seldom within reach. To be in the temple, is to walk amongst the clouds, leaving the world behind and entering a place of higher learning and grandeur that cannot be experienced anywhere else upon the face of the earth. Elevating the mind and soul to heights unchartered. Opening the floodgates of contemplation and thought, understanding and truth.

All may enter. All may experience. All may see and feel of its beauty and truth. But all must prepare to enter in at its gate, for narrow is its pathway and few there will be that pass underneath its steady doors. Without this preparation one would simply overlook and pass by the simplistic and yet profound truths which are found within the sacred walls of the temple.You first must learn and grow. Gaining knowledge and understanding, Then how those deep and everlasting principals will seep into your soul and cause you to awaken from the sleep of mortality and feel the closeness of Heaven. Then you will be capable of experiencing its divine and connected love. Preparing yourself to meet the God of the Heavens and the Earth, and feeling of that eternal love and bond in which he has for all of his children.

-Brett Smith, April, 2010
Inspired after attending the open house of the LDS Temple in Vancouver BC.