realization

It is Easter.  I am so thankful for the gift of the Atonement and Resurrection of my Savior Jesus Christ.  I know He lives.  I KNOW! I do know by the tender mercies I experience every day in my life.  I want to share one this  morning.  Backup, last week we went to the Easter Pageant at the Mesa Temple with the girls.  They LOVED it.  Audrey kept asking if they really did that to Jesus (having difficulty distinguishing between the actor and the actual story) but I could tell she could feel the Spirit witness to her.  So, this morning I showed them an amazing montage on Mormon messages about how Jesus had to Stand Alone based on a talk by Elder Jeffery R. Holland.  Similar images were depicted in the film that Audrey saw in the Pageant.  She asked the same questions.  I told her He loved us SOO much he endured all that for you and me and everyone on Earth.  Wheels started to turn... and I don't remember exactly what I asked, but I something about how the Holy Spirit feels when we feel it, and she turned so quietly to me and said, "Mom, It is what I feel right now."  I could tell she was having a spiritual experience, and I didn't want it to pass by without remembering it.  I let that happen too often, so now it is recorded, and I set a goal again to strive to make moments remembered by writing it down.  Audrey's birthday is tomorrow, and She'll be 5 years old.  I love her so much.  She asks good questions.  She asks questions I don't even begin to fathom asking, and yet at her young age, she is like an old soul.  I am thankful she can identify how the Holy Ghost feels when she feels it and that will help her to seek and find truth.