D&C 88:40 reads: For intelligence cleaveth unto intelligence; wisdom receiveth wisdom; truth embraceth truth; virtue loveth virtue; light cleaveth unto light; mercy hath compassion on mercy and claimeth her own;
I think this is the most beautiful scripture, for a million reasons, but I’d like to point out just one. It is that it describes for me how I feel when I’m in love with someone. I hear people talk all the time about the list or picture they have when they describe their ideal. This has always confused me because my mind doesn’t work that way. Rather, what I see as preeminent in a romantic relationship is someone with whom I don’t feel alone in their presence. It might sound simple, but I think it’s really rare. And since I’ve never been in a situation, romantically, where there aren’t several things to look past in order to move forward, I like how the above states that mercy claimeth her own. Bruce C. Hafen has said that as we serve, love and honor our commitments to one another we come to belong to one another. I believe that as mercy claimeth her own -our sense of belonging is established and therefore life and liberation are found.