He Likes Children

Last summer I received a letter from a woman who has emerged from a long period of Church inactivity.
She is ever so anxious for her husband, who as yet is not a member of the church, to share the joy she now feels.

She wrote of a trip which she, her husband, and their three sons made from the family home to Grandmother's home in Idaho.
While driving through Salt Lake City, they were attracted by the message which appeared on a billboard.
The message invited them to visit Temple Square.
Bob, the nonmember husband, made the suggestion that a visit would be pleasant.
The family entered the visitors' center, and Father took two sons up a ramp that one called "the ramp to heaven."
Mother and three-year-old Tyler were a bit behind the others, they having paused to appreciate the beautiful paintings which adorned the walls.
As they walked toward the magnificent sculpture of Thorvaldsen's Christus, tiny Tyler bolted from his mother and ran to the base of the Christus, while exclaiming, "It's Jesus! It's Jesus!"
As Mother attempted to retrain her son, Tyler looked back toward her and his father and said, "Don't worry. He likes children."

After departing the center and again making their way along the freeway toward Grandmother's, Tyler moved to the front seat next to his father.
Dad asked him what he liked best about their adventure on Temple Square.
Tyler smiled up at him and said, "Jesus."

"How do you know that Jesus likes you, Tyler?"

Tyler, with a most serious expression on his face, looked up at his father's eyes and answered, "Dad, didn't you see his face?"
Nothing else needed to be said.

-Thomas S. Monson -A Little Child Shall Lead Them -April 1990 General Conference

Until you next see these words;
I'll be watching the leaves.
Enjoy the day!

-Sarnic Dirchi