My reason for living

So I am now teaching the 11 year old primary class at church(since jan) and I am amazed at how much they are teaching me!. Sunday was Easter and we of course were talking baout about Jesus Christ and his Resurrection. A child in my class asked me why when he visited the nephites and his apostles in Jerusalem were the nail marks still present if when you are resurrected your body was to be perfect. HOLY COW!!!! what a deep question and one I had never thought about. This is one of those times that I am SOOOO thankful for the Holy Ghost and its influence in my life. It occurred to me that when the scriptures talk about our perfect form in body at resurrection it's the body that makes US perfect. The scars of the nail prints are what makes Jesus Christ perfect, they are the scars of the Atonement and without them none of us could be made perfect. So He has to have them in his perfected and resurrected form to show us the scars of perfection. Of course I told the class this in a simplified form, but later easter night Brendan and I were talking and I told him about this experience. He said, "WOW, Jess taht is deep!" For him the philosophical geniuos that he is to say that I thought of something deep was a compliment. So think about your life and think of the scars that will make us perfect...Those of our Savior and what he endured for us. This is what Easter is truly about. Have a great weekend, and I'll have a family easter post later when I get the pics downloaded.