Remember Your Way Back Home

Take time regularly to boost your spiritual immune system by remembering your blessings from the Lord.

Understanding who you truly are helps you better recognize the path back home.

We live in an age where with the press of a button or even a voice command we can initiate a search for answers on almost any topic and yet we are invited to simply ask in order to receive answers to the most important questions.

(4th) We can remember to serve others

(3rd) remember to be prayerful

Based on this experience, Hasler, together with other researchers, went on to demonstrate that salmon remember the very scents that would help them navigate thousands of miles to find their way back home from the sea.

This account caused me to think that one of the most important things we can do in this life is to recognize and remember the pathway back to our Heavenly Father and faithfully and joyfully persevere throughout the journey.

I thought of four reminders that, when used and applied consistently in our lives, can rekindle feelings of our heavenly home.

1. Knowing that we are children of God and that He wants us to return to His presence is one of the first steps on the journey back to our heavenly home.
   • Make time regularly to boost your spiritual immune system by remembering the blessings you have received from the Lord.
   • Knowing who you are changes what you feel and what you do.
2. Remember the foundation that protects us.
   • Helaman taught his sons to remember that they must build their foundations on Jesus Christ in order to have the strength to withstand the temptations of the adversary.
3. Remember to be prayerful.
   • God is fully aware of each one of us and ready to listen to our prayers.
   • When we remember to pray, we find His sustaining love, and the more we pray to our Father in Heaven in Christ’s name, the more we bring the Savior into our life and the better we will recognize the path He has marked to our heavenly home.
4. Remember to serve others.
   • As we strive to follow Jesus Christ by serving and showing kindness to others, we make the world a better place.
   • Loving service to others guides us along the path to our heavenly home—the path of becoming like our Savior.

It is easy in the moment to imagine that “this sacrifice will always feel like a big deal” especially if we think we can return home without making the sacrifice of it we don’t that there is a heavenly home to return to. But if we trust that the sacrifice will lead to our Heavenly home it will be easier to make.