A Family is Born
©2011 Susan Noyes Anderson
Man and woman.
Heaven’s grace
reaching, touching
altar’s lace.
Gift of God,
the sealing power.
Life eternal
from that hour
is theirs. A prize
to lose or keep
by covenant
that runs heart-deep.
A family born.
A promise sure.
If man and woman
but endure.
“His seed also will I make to endure forever,
and his throne as the days of heaven.”
Psalms 89:29
“Marriage and family are ordained of God.
The family is the most important social unit in time and eternity.”
Russell M. Nelson
“Grow old along with me; the best is yet to be.”
Robert Browning
Tags: eternity, LDS, love, Mormon, temple marriage
Susan Noyes Anderson
Susan Noyes Anderson is the author of At the End of Your Rope, There’s Hope, Deseret Book, ©1997; Awaken Your Spiritual Power: The Fairy Godmother Isn’t Coming!, Karisma Press, ©1999; and His Children (poetry only, photos are by Anita Schiller), Vantage Point Press, ©2003.