This is our journey as saints.

This weekend, I was privileged to attend the blessing of my first grandson. Watching my son take baby Casey up and encircling that infant with his Grandpa, Great-Grandpa and close family friends was moving. I thought of the Priesthood examples holding onto each other’s shoulders and all of the blessings and opportunities that will come as they keep their covenants and stand as worthy mentors for him. I listened to the sacred words pronounced for him from his Heavenly Father and then watched his dad hand him to his mom who literally sustains him and in whose arms he feels the safest in the world. She was seated with her mom and my daughter and I thought of the many righteous women in his life also doing their best to follow Jesus Christ. Sister Bonnie D Parkin once spoke of her experience at witnessing her first grandaughter’s blessing. I’m slightly altering her words to speak of Casey instead of Jordan. “Casey was fortunate. He was born to his pare...