Life without God is a life filled with fear.

Life with God is a life filled with peace.

My next story is about a woman I'll call Mary. She was the daughter of

faithful pioneer parents who had sacrificed much for the gospel. She'd been married

in the temple and was the mother of 10 children.

She was a talented woman who taught her children how to pray, to work hard, and to love each

other. She paid her tithing and the family rode to a church

together on Sunday in their wagon. Though she knew it was contrary to the word of

wisdom, she developed the habit of drinking coffee and kept a coffee pot on the

back of her stove. She claimed that the Lord will not keep me out of heaven for a little

cup of coffee but be will not

qualify for a little cup of coffee,

she could not qualify for temple recommend.

And neither could those of her children who drank coffee with her.

She lived to a good old age, and she did eventually qualify to reenter and serve in the temple.

But only one of her ten children had a worthy temple marriage and a great number of her posterity which is now in its

fifth generation live outside of the blessings of the restored gospel she

believed in and her forefathers sacrificed so much for.

That repentance isn't optional.

We're commanded to repent.

The Savior taught that unless we repent and become as a little child we can

and no wise inherit the kingdom of God. Life without God is a life filled with

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