Together Forever Someday

Many years ago when I served a mission in California, media was just beginning to be a “thing”, today there are many variations…  considering how early this version is… nearly 38 years ago, it’s amazing how touching it still is.

I left for my mission in 1981 so I know this music was out before then… and I’m not sure how early this video is, but I remember seeing it!  What I do remember is that the feelings it brought then were that all those I loved SO MUCH while serving in California, I was going to miss terribly when I went home in early 1983.  I remember knowing that since they were from all parts of the US and the world… it would be almost impossible to hope that “we can be Together Forever Someday”!  I always knew that if I did not get a chance during this lifetime to see them again… I WOULD one day see them after this life is over!

And here we go with perspective again… it’s now 35 years after my mission and just the other day someone posted this video… and ALL those feelings of my loved ones in the mission field came flooding back… but then the Tsunami hit and I finally realized that there was a bigger message in the video and it concerns my baby boy… OH YEAH, I know it was talking about sealing families after this life is over… but in my limited view before my mission and while on my mission, all I could think about was my companions and other missionaries in my districts and zones…  and the reason WHY… Because my family were converts and because of the divorce of my parents… I WAS NOT A FOREVER FAMILY!!!!  I was not sealed to anyone… and am still not sealed to my mom or dad… only to my dear Husband and my precious babies through being born in the covenant…  so in my little missionary mind, my limited view of what this life might be like after it was over was being able to greet all my missionary loved ones on the other side.

MJ, one of my dearest companions while serving in California succumbed to Cancer in 1992.   I lived in Arizona at the time… she lived in Utah.  I packed up my three boys and headed up in my little red Nissan to see her before her passing… entertaining the three little’s with “Achy Breaky Heart” in a CD player 100 times over and over again because that’s the only CD we had and because there were no radio signals in the mountains between Arizona and Utah.  When I DID get to see her, my boys were being babysat by a friend and when I went to see her she was as thrilled as she could be given that she would die less than 3 weeks later.  I remember SPECIFICALLY telling my sweet MJ that I would see her again and that “I would be a good girl” because I KNEW where she was going… and in order to see her again and get to go where I KNEW she was going… I’d need to be a “good girl”!!!!    MJ was an angel with no pretense… she was who she was, YES she was tough, but soft and gentle.  She was Fair, she was kind, giving and guileless… She was EVERYTHING I wanted to be… and more!  When I heard about her death during General Conference Weekend… I was just shattered!  Then I remembered my promise to be a “good girl” because I SO NEED to see her again!

So this week, this video popped up on my Facebook feed and for 30 minutes I watched and remembered and CRIED… this time there is Connor as a new perspective!  Now even more, I need to be a “good girl”… I’m still trying… trying so hard….

I have new perspective because it’s no longer just those I served my mission with who I’d like to see again sometime on this earth…  But now I want to be together to see Connor again… I need to be a “good girl” because I want more than anything to see him and MJ again!!  But there’s more to see too, all those who I’ve come to know in Genealogy work!!  But mostly I need to kiss Connor’s little face and rub his soft hair and cuddle him one more time… because THAT time will be Forever!... if I’m a “good girl”!

Please watch the video, link is below the lyrics… and remember that we all need to be “good” in order to be Together Forever Someday…

Lyrics are from the Michael Mclean song:

Together Forever Someday

Well, it's hard to say good bye and let go
And it's hard to see it end
When the mem'ries we've just made
May never happen again.
But it's harder for time to ever erase
The together times we've shared.
So, when we're apart remember
All the love we shared together

And for all that love,
Thank the Lord above
Who showed us the way
That we can be together, forever someday

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=do1tUMzUwTQ&feature=share