Elder Lance B. Wickman
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"Mortality is fragile. Only one heartbeat, the drawing of a single breath, separates this world from the next. ... Death is a curtain through which each must pass and ... none of us knows when that passage will occur. Of all the challenges we face, perhaps the greatest is the misguided sense that mortality goes on forever, and its corollary — that we can postpone until tomorrow the seeking and offering of forgiveness, which, as the gospel of Jesus Christ teaches, are among mortality's central purposes.
" ... the person we are when we depart this life is the person we will be as we enter the next. Thankfully, we do have today ...
"We really are immortal, in the sense that Christ's Atonement conquers death, both physical and spiritual. And provided we have so lived today that we have claim on the Atonement's cleansing grace, we will live forever with God. This life is not so much a time for getting and accumulating as it is a time for giving and becoming. Mortality is the battlefield upon which justice and mercy meet. But they need not meet as adversaries, for they are reconciled in the Atonement of Jesus Christ for all to wisely use today ... Today is the day to forgive others their trespasses."
