Celestial room

Post by **_ajax18** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 5:51 am

I attended a wedding recently and found the sermon preached pretty darn good. I guess I haven't been to many weddings so I didn't get to hear it very often. In short it was new and not the same old dry stuff I hear in Church every week. I appreciated what the TP had to say on marriage. The people working at the temple were friendly and courteous. They didn't ream me up and down for being from out of town and not knowing exactly where I was going or what I was doing. This was definitely different from the world I live in.

To be honest, for a wedding, it wasn't all that extravagant at all. Yet I found it a beautiful experience with many important memories made, which to me is what a wedding should be about. I've never found that eternal perspective to marriage in any other religion. Most worldly brides ruin their weddings by immersing themselves in such selfishness, self indulgence and extravagance that they wind up alone, because even their closest friends get sick of them. Ironically, these brides don't even really end up that happy.

The deeper I've gotten into Mormonism and in a sense invented my own private religion within a religion, the more peace I've found.

_Paul Osborne · Post by **_Paul Osborne** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 11:44 am

Bond...James Bond wrote:Looks like the lobby at the Hotel I stayed at recently. Where's the Continental Breakfast?

Hmmm, you're a wise guy. I'll bet you ain't been in a hotel that looks like this:

Paul O

_Paul Osborne · Post by **_Paul Osborne** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 11:57 am

The deeper I've gotten into Mormonism and in a sense invented my own private religion within a religion, the more peace I've found

That's how it's suppose to be. We are to develop on our own with and without the aid of the Church. Our personal relationship with God is absolutely the most important thing. The Church helps us on our journey and gives us the tools we need but it's up to us to use them and find greater treasure beyond what you will find in the chapel halls.

Paul O

Post by **_moksha** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 9:41 pm

Paul, thank you for the posts. It is indeed a place of peace.

Post by **_Doctor Steuss** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 10:52 pm

Paul Osborne wrote:
The deeper I've gotten into Mormonism and in a sense invented my own private religion within a religion, the more peace I've found

That's how it's suppose to be. We are to develop on our own with and without the aid of the Church. Our personal relationship with God is absolutely the most important thing. The Church helps us on our journey and gives us the tools we need but it's up to us to use them and find greater treasure beyond what you will find in the chapel halls.

Paul O

Truer words never spoken...

by the way, Thanks for the pics Paul. I haven't been through the temple yet (maybe one of these days when I stop being a heathen), but I love seeing pictures of the innards of them.

Post by **_Blixa** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 1:19 am

No need for links...I dug up my own pics of various celestial rooms.

Post by **_Mercury** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 1:24 am

When one walks into the big room at the end, "the celestial room" turns out to be a place where people sit, the attendants give ou funny looks and try to get you to go back to the locker room and plastic plants cover the Formica furniture. With a veneer of opulence found in a whorehouse the decorators were told to make it look pretty to those passing through the room. I found no peace there, just more questions

Post by **_Mercury** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 1:25 am

Doctor Steuss wrote:I haven't been through the temple yet

Prepare to be confused, frustrated and let down.

Post by **_Mercury** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 1:30 am

Paul Osborne wrote:[b]Hmmm, you're a wise guy. I'll bet you ain't been in a hotel that looks like this:

Speaking as someone with a long career in the Hospitality industry --Cough-Hilton Hotels Corporation-cough-- I can name seven or eight hotels that do not compare to the Mormon temples.

And they are cheaper to get into too!

The Waldorf Astoria for starters:

Stick that in your eye Mariott!

Post by **_harmony** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 2:01 am

The flowers are fake and look it, and the furniture is overstuffed and uncomfortable to sit on. However, I love the wallpaper in the Manti temple.

The grounds are always beautiful, until you get around to the backside of the building, and then it's like they forgot to even mow the lawn. No flowers or expensive landscaping back there.

What blows me away is the locks. Why would anyone need locks in the temple?