Save Us All

 Remember those times when you pranked your sister and were later found out?  Or when you had your hand in the cookie jar?  Think back at how when you were little how guilty you felt the first time it happened and wondered if you'd ever be forgiven, and that thought of eternal gloom of being stuck in the corner hit you.  You felt pretty bad I'll bet, because we all have.  We do something wrong and yet life still goes on, it doesn't end in that moment of grief.  Former apostle Elder Clark said once:

"I believe that our Heavenly Father wants to save every one of his children.  I do not think he intends to shut any of us off because of some slight transgression, some slight failure to observe some rule or regulation.  There are the great elements that we must observe, but he is not going to be captious [quick to fin fault] about the lesser things."

"I believe that his juridical concept of his dealings with his children could be expressed in this way: I believe that in his justice and mercy he will give us the maximum reward for our acts, give us all that he can give, and in reverse, I believe that he will impose upon us the minimum penalty which it is possible for him to impose." -(J. Reuben Clark Jr., G.C. Oct. 1953)