Thank you, General Taylor. And thank you, Deborah and Elizabeth and Kate for that beautiful number

and the beautiful spirit that it brought and all of the remarks before and the music today. I've been so filled as I've listened to all of you. And it’s just been a marvelous experience. Thank you so much.

I’m so grateful for what you do and for who you are. Thank you. I know “Thank you for your service” is something you hear a lot.

But thank you.

Your service is unique in that you minister to military members of all faiths, yet you are representatives of the Church.

What a tremendous and marvelous and unique experience this is for you.

A few years ago, I had the opportunity of writing a biography about my father, Donald Long Hilton. In 1949, he joined the Church during his senior year in high school.

His father had passed away years, several years before, and his mother had remarried a widower who happened to be a member of the Church. Dad took his time joining the Church, as he and his brothers and his mother had been happy in their nondenominational faith.

But in January of 1949, he was baptized, and five months later he decided to strike out on his own. Six days after his graduation from high school, he joined the Air Force and started basic training at Lackland in San Antonio. He would later say that this 13 week period was a most difficult experience, and the air condition-less heat certainly didn’t help.

He was homesick and lonely.

He was then sent to Chanute Air Force Base in Rantoul, Illinois.

This was a pivotal time for the young convert, who was further from home than he had ever been, and he could have gone in several different directions.

He decided to attend the local branch of the Church,

and there he met Colonel Robert Stewart and his wife, Ora Pate Stewart.

This couple took Dad under their wing. Colonel Stewart assigned Dad to be his personal Jeep driver,

and Dad was invited to their home on Sundays for dinner.

Sister Stewart was a well known author who had written 29 books, many for Church members. She was named poet laureate by the World Congress of Poetry, and was a biblical and technical advisor to director Cecil B. DeMille for his iconic movie, The Ten Commandments. She had been honored by four US presidents, numerous times by BYU, and received seven honorary doctorates.

But more importantly for Dad, she taught Sunday school in their branch,

and Dad began a lifelong love of studying the gospel under the tutelage of the Stewarts.

As there were no Latter day Saint peacetime chaplains after World War II ended until the 1960s, I like to think of the Stewart as Dad’s chaplains.

They completely

changed the direction of his life.

Dad tried to leave the military after one year so he could,

he had signed up for one year, and he tried to leave after that so he could serve a mission. He even received a mission call.

However, the outbreak of the Korean War prevented that.

When he did receive his honorable discharge after another year, it was necessary that he return and work, so he didn't get to serve his mission.

He was able to use the GI Bill to go to college, however, and he married my mother and they made it through medical school together.

Dad and Mom eventually served their mission together decades later, presiding over the Manila, Philippines Mission for three years.

Dad had always loved military history, instilling this in me as well.

He and Mom brought each group of new missionaries to the American military cemetery in Manila and had a meeting with them at the seal of the state of Utah Monument in the cemetery, where President Gordon B Hinckley had dedicated the Philippines for the preaching of the gospel in the early 1960s.

I have often wondered what direction Dad might have gone without the shepherding the Stewarts provided.

What a blessing they were to him, and by extension, to our entire family.

In your service, you have undoubtedly encountered many like my young father, and will do so again in the future. The effects of your ministry, to them,

will be only partially seen in your lifetimes.

Your work will ripple beyond the veil, and someday you will find your joy magnified

as you are reunited with them there.

In the 1940s and 50s, my father faced challenges unique to his time. For instance, many began smoking during these decades before the tobacco studies pointed to an association with lung cancer.

These studies began to emerge in the late 50s and early 60s.

Tobacco, of course, is now universally recognized as being a carcinogen.

Each generation has temptations unique to its time, its own blood and sins.

As Elder Jeffrey R. Holland taught.

He taught and said, “Our challenge is to remain clean from the blood and sins of this generation.” And to assist the Lord in helping struggling souls return to him, which is his work and his glory.

Although substance addictions continue with us today,

a challenge that is unique to our time,

something that my father’s generation didn’t face in the same way we do, is that of Internet pornography.

Of course, pornography existed, but the Internet has truly been a game changer.

Before we discuss how to help both those who use pornography and those harmed by their use,

it's important to spend a few minutes discussing how pornography harms.

Pornography today is both powerful and ubiquitous.

Sadly, it has become the primary mode of sex education for teens and emerging adults and increasingly even for children.

It’s becoming more interactive and captivating by the design of conspiring men and women. Pornography participation today is thus more accurately described as using as opposed to simply viewing pornography.

In decades past, it was more difficult to access pornography,

but now, any teen or child can access explicit videos in seconds on any smartphone. These powerful technologies are dangerous for youth and for any who use them, given their broad affiliation with pornographic applications.

Consider this warning from Elder David A. Bednar about how the adversary uses virtual technology to displace our physical mortal body, especially in the context of these concepts about Internet pornography which we're discussing today.

“In essence, [the adversary] encourages us to think and act as if we were in our premortal, unembodied state.

And, if we let him, he can cunningly employ some aspects of modern technology to accomplish his purposes.

Please be careful of becoming so immersed and engrossed in pixels, texting, earbuds, twittering,

online social networking, and potentially addictive uses of media

and the Internet that you fail to recognize the importance of your physical body and miss the richness of person-to- person communication.

Beware of digital displays and data in many forms of computer- mediated interaction that can displace the full range of physical capacity and experience.”

Virtual reality pornography is increasingly incorporating robotic

haptic technology, so the physical body lapses into a passive state, and the mind and spirit are increasingly controlled by the 3D avatars in a virtual space, which becomes more compelling to the person than the actual world. Consider this in the context of these words from the Prophet Joseph Smith. “The punishment of the devil was that he should not have a habitation like men. The devil's retaliation is he comes into this world, binds up men’s bodies, and occupies them himself.”

These avatar worlds of virtual pornography, whether VR or the mainstream Internet version, are inhabited by the adversary and his followers.

Specifically specifically about looking to lust,

The Savior warned us to “suffer none of these things to enter into our hearts.” Knowing that these adversarial spirits facilitate compulsions and addictions which goeth not out, but by fasting, by prayer and fasting,

Participating in virtual sexual interactions through computer technology is not consistent with keeping the law of chastity.

Yet sadly, many participate in these activities and still attend the temple.

Some might consider that it is just looking at pornography, so the person is still worthy of temple attendance.

Rather, pornography today has become just another form of increasingly interactive virtual fornication and adultery with computer technology,

one which requires repentance and recovery to heal fully and completely. What effect does pornography have on our physical bodies?

Our brains are marvelous gifts, provided by our Heavenly Father. In my almost three decades of performing neurosurgery, I still feel awe and reverence each time I operate on the brain.

Somehow, in that delicate neural tissue, an interplay between the spirit and the body, the soul of man, occurs.

The brain is an interface between our immortal spirit and the mortal world.

Our brain can be impaired physically by many things from trauma, cancer,

other diseases, and importantly, by addictive behaviors.

How does this happen? In the center of our brain is an area we refer to

as the reward center.

This area motivates us through pleasure rewards to participate in activities that help us survive and prosper, both as individuals and as a species.

In the base of our brain is another area termed the brain stem, which is, among other many important functions, powers the brain with desire.

It sends projections to the reward center, and its message is to act in the interest of pleasure,

what Lehi called the will of the flesh. In the front of our brains, behind our foreheads are the frontal cortical regions, where judgment, cognition, and volition, are housed.

These areas also project to the reward center.

They help us consider pleasure in the context of life. For instance, I may want to eat a whole chocolate cake or all of the strawberry pies on the table today,

but one small slice might be better, given what I’ve already eaten that day.

Thus, pleasure is contextualized

and boundaried, and it can be flavored and colored with deep hues of meaning, both cognitively and emotionally.

It is also important to understand that learning changes the brain physically.

In other words, our brains are plastic or changeable.

We call this phenomenon neuroplasticity. One neuroscience paper put it this way, “The brain is the source of behavior, but in turn it is modified by the behaviors it produces . . .

learning sculpts brain structure.” In addiction,

the balance between the frontal judgment areas,

the reward system, and the brain stem is altered.

Addiction is also a form of learning. In fact, two researchers wrote,

“Addiction represents a pathological, yet powerful, form of learning and memory.”

While studies have shown neuroplastic changes in the brain related to substance abuse and drugs,

changes have also been noted with compulsive use of natural rewards such as gambling, food, and pornography.

In a chapter in an academic psychiatric textbook titled The Neurobiology of Addiction, published by Oxford University Press, my coauthors, Dr. Stephanie Carnes, Dr. Todd Love, and I wrote,

“This technology provides an endless stream of human sexual acts and body parts, most of it initially free. . . .

This novelty, with an endless variety and combination of body parts and sexual acts, becomes a powerful cornucopia for the sexual salience of the consumer. Pornography is a perfect laboratory for this kind of novel learning used with a powerful pleasure incentive drive.

The focused searching and clicking, looking for the perfect masturbatory subject, is an exercise in neuroplastic learning.”

In addiction, the hedonic set point, or pleasure thermostat, of the brain is altered. Higher levels of stimulus must be experienced to produce the same pleasure reward. Elder Neal A. Maxwell described this process.

“What we are speaking about is so much more than merely deflecting temptations for which we somehow do not feel responsible. Remember, brothers and sisters, it is our own desires which determine the sizing and the attractiveness of various temptations. We set our thermostats

as to temptations.”

Pornography is addictive in every sense of the word.

Before talking about addiction, however, it is important to emphasize that any use of this material is not only a serious sexual sin, but is also extremely damaging to the mental, emotional, and spiritual axis of the user.

Compulsive sexual behavior is recognized as a mental health disorder. In the ICD 11, the international classification system used by health care professionals to categorize diseases,

it is classified at present as stated, as an impulse control disorder,

although there was significant debate about considering it directly an addictive disorder, similar to gambling being so described in the ICD in the DSM. There is strong support to formally classify it as a behavioral addiction. This

paper was published in the journal Lancet.

“Compulsive sexual behavior disorder seems to fit,” quote,

“compulsive sexual behavior disorder seems to fit well with non-substance addictive disorders proposed for the ICD-11, consistent with the narrower term of sexual addiction currently proposed for compulsive sexual behavior disorder on the ICD-11 draft website.

We believe that classification of compulsive sexual behavior disorder as an addictive disorder is consistent with recent data and might benefit clinicians, researchers,

and individuals suffering from and personally affected by this disorder.”

This paper was written by the director of addictions research at Yale,

along with a professor of addiction research at Cambridge, and also researchers from the University of California and from Israel. The American Society of Addiction Medicine, ASAM,

comprised of medical doctors specializing in addiction,

have recognized pornography and sexual addiction as legitimate brain addictions for over a decade.

Pornography programs are desires in a negative way.

A number of years ago, there was a study using rats

which illustrates this concept. The researchers put a male rat in a cage.

They then put a piece of wood soaked with cadaverine in the cage.

This is a chemical that's so noxious that even rats hate the smell.

The rat ran away from the cadaver in wood and avoided it, which was normal behavior for a rat.

Next they remove the wood, then put a female rat in the cage, and the rats mated, again, which was normal behavior for a male rat.

Now, the experiment became interesting, in that the researchers soaked the female rat herself with cadaverine, then put her back in the cage.

At first the male rat ran away and avoided the female rat.

However, the sexual attraction overcame the aversion for the smell of cadaverine, and the male rat mated with the female.

From then on, every time the female was placed in the cage, she was permeated with cadaverine.

Yet the male rat was not dissuaded and continued to mate with her.

Finally, the experiment ended as it started.

The same cadaverine-soaked wood was placed in the cage with the male rat.

However, instead of running away as at the first,

the male rat now ran to the cadaverine wood and began to gnaw on it.

He now liked cadaverine. The author summarized,

“An unconditionally aversive odor (cadaverine) was made less aversive and possibly conditionally appetitive by pairing with sexual reward.”

Similarly pornography pairs coercion,

aggression, and perversion with sexual reward in people.

Normally, people don’t seek out or like this negativity, but pornography is a powerful teacher. Through neuroplastic change, the brain learns to like what it naturally would abhor, like the cadaverine rats.

I think this process was best described by Lehi, as I mentioned earlier, as the will of the flesh, which giveth the spirit of the devil power to captivate.

Or to addict and control. Indeed, addiction is the destroyer’s power to seal you his, as described by Amulek.

There are numerous studies about how pornography addicts the brain, how it harms relationships, exploits those used in its production,

the details of which are beyond the scope of our time. Today I'll discuss a few things about the harm, though, before we talk about healing, which is our primary purpose. In a very real sense, pornography is a solvent.

It dissolves relationships and prevents meaningful attachments from forming and erodes empathy,

causing devastating damage to the user's emotional health.

It programs into the user's brain sexual arousal templates, which then drive unrealistic expectations.

The vast majority of pornography teaches aggression and violence against women and also teaches coercion.

Tragically, it is harming many marriages by imprinting these sexual scripts in the intimate relationships of many couples, both in and out of the Church.

Their individuality is erased in a stifling sameness as they try to reproduce these toxic acts and coerce their spouse to follow the script. Too many men, and an increasing number of women, are walking in darkness at noon day with pornography firmly entrenched in their lives.

Pornography turns people into body parts, and this objectification profoundly changes the way the user sees others and also themselves. One woman said of her husband,

“He seemed to have gone to a different place, to comment about the women in porn and me in a cold and detached way, to say things about women’s bodies, about sexual acts, which came out of his mouth with swinging bluntness.

A layer of empathy had been ground away.

My man, the one I had promised to love and cherish.”

No wonder Alma counseled Shiblon to “bridle all your passions that ye may be filled with love.” Indeed, the spouses of those who use pornography experience the opposite of love. That is betrayal trauma.

Over the many years we have worked in this space, my wife Janet and I have come to know and respect Dr. Jill Manning,

a clinical psychologist with extensive experience treating betrayal trauma. She describes it as follows.

“Trauma is defined as a deeply distressing or overwhelming experience that is commonly followed by emotional and physical shock. If left unresolved or untreated,

traumatic experiences can lead to short and long-term challenges.

In contrast, betrayal trauma occurs when someone we depend on for survival, or are significantly attached to, violates our trust in a critical way.” Betrayal trauma is especially damaging because it involves the loss of support from the very one who should be the most dependable and trustable person during a devastating experience.

This compounded by actions. This is compounded by other actions that many users exhibit.

For example, the pornography user will frequently deny their use completely or minimize it. They will also deflect responsibility for their use and even blame the spouse for creating their need to use pornography.

Dr. Manning also describes secondary trauma, which occurs when the when the betrayed spouse reaches out to a therapist or ecclesiastical leader and receives no validation. Even worse, the support person might side with the pornography user in telling the spouse that they are potentiating the problem by not being more patient with long-term addictive behavior.

In a paper Dr. Manning published with her PhD mentor at BYU,

Sister Dr. Wendy Watson Nelson, Doctors Manning and Watson Nelson wrote, “Because the majority

of women in this study turned to clergy as part of their support network, clarifying what was most and least helpful about pastoral counseling

was an important aspect of the study. This study highlights the importance of clergy taking sexually addictive and compulsive behaviors seriously,

validating the intense feelings that ensue after a disclosure or discovery, connecting women to specialized resources if clergy is not trained to deal with problematic sexual behavior, and including wives in some of the meetings with the husband in order to address the couple and spousal impact”

All too often, the pornography user will accuse the spouse of shaming them, repeating the myth that the shame is worse than the pornography. In truth, they are both damaging.

Sadly, many use a facade of recovery as a cover to continue to practice virtual infidelity and shame their spouse for not accepting some pornography use as long as the user, for instance, attends meetings. This can become a counterproductive cycle of using, confessing, deflecting accountability, and blaming, which can continue for years. A word about shame. Shame is usually defined today in therapy circles as a person feeling they are inherently bad and therefore hopeless, which is a lie of the adversary.

Godly guilt, on the other hand, can motivate us to change our behavior and eventually our character. Some will even tell the spouse that because they are married, using pornography together is not wrong. Another lie of the adversary.

Many pornography users and even some spouses experience a faith crisis as spirituality fades and the natural man predominates.

Indeed, the Lord warned that, “he that looketh upon a woman to lust after her shall deny the faith and shall not have the spirit.” Of relevance here is a similar warning from President Russell M. Nelson. “Now please hear

me when I say do not be led astray by those whose doubts may be fueled by things you cannot see in their lives.”

Given the ubiquity of Internet pornography, it is responsible for much of the erosion of faith in the world, both in and out of the Church.

So what can we do to help those who are afflicted by this plague to heal, whether it is the person who uses or the harmed spouses and children of those who use?

First, we can make sure we are in a good place personally and relationally with our spouse if we are married.

We must be on good ground ourselves to help lift others.

I was honored to be asked to present at a conference convened at the Vatican

on protecting children from pornography

a few years ago. My wife and I were privileged to meet Pope Francis in a private audience, and he told our group,

we would be, quote, “we would be seriously deluding ourselves were we to think that a society where an abnormal consumption of internet sex is rampant among adults could be capable of effectively protecting minors.”

We can better help others as we cleanse the inner vessel.

For 12 years, my wife and I served as program coordinators for the Addiction Recovery Program for the stakes in the San Antonio Austin areas. This was a marvelous experience.

During those years, we came to know and love hundreds of people seeking help from addictive and compulsive behaviors. We learned that Paul's counsel to those who seek to help these individuals is just as timely today as when he wrote Timothy,

he wrote these words to Timothy from Rome,

“And the servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, in meekness

instructing those that oppose themselves.; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth; And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.”

Note several important principles regarding ministering to those with addictive behaviors. First, arguing or striving is not helpful.

We must respect agency and offer support to those who struggle.

Be gentle to all men and women. Apt to teach means ready to teach when they are ready to learn, which will likely come during windows of teaching opportunity. Thus, patience is paramount.

Having a meek and humble spirit is most helpful when ministering to those who habitually struggle. Note Paul uses the term oppose themselves,

a descriptive and accurate term for those continuing these addictive, self-destructive behaviors. The next two concepts shed valuable insight.

Repentance is described as something God will give them through grace as they return to the truth.

Paul describes a related process which is actually a part of repentance,

which might be termed recovery, and notes that this will take effort and that they may recover themselves. Recover from what? From the snare of the devil, which has impacted agency with addictive behaviors.

Thus, persons with alcohol,

heroin, and pornography addiction will do well to afford themselves the spiritual guidance of a judge in Israel, their bishop.

Elder Jeffrey R. Holland taught, “Are you battling a demon of addiction- tobacco or drugs or gambling, or the pernicious contemporary plague of pornography? . . .

Whatever other steps you may need to take to resolve these concerns, come

first to the gospel of Jesus Christ.” A wise bishop will likely recommend that those struggling with addictions will seek recovery with professional help and support from 12 Step and other groups. The effort the individual expends to recover themselves is a lifelong effort to attain and maintain not only sobriety and then strong recovery, but to allow the Savior to change their very nature.

The Lord said, “By this, Ye may know if a man repenteth of his sins.

Behold, he will confess them and forsake them.”

Recovery is a part of repentance which helps us forsake addictive sins.

The late Dr. Victor Klein, a psychologist,

widely respected both in and out of the Church for his work with pornography addiction, stated the following about those who seek recovery.

“I have found that there are four major factors that most predict success in recovery. First, the individual must be personally motivated to be free of his addiction,” and I’ll say his or her “addiction and possess a willingness to do whatever it takes to achieve success. . . you can never force a person to get well if he [or she] doesn’t want to.

Second, it is necessary to create a safe environment which drastically reduces access to porn and sexual triggers. Third, he or she should affiliate with a twelve-step support group. Fourth, the individual needs to select a counselor/therapist who has had special training and success in treating sexual addictions.”

A number of years ago, a man who was struggling with both pornography and prescription drug addiction called me and asked for help.

I contacted a physician friend who was in recovery himself from fentanyl addiction. I explained the situation. His first question was, Is he ready?

The question, is he or she ready? is an essential one.

As the hymn says, God will never force the human mind.

Even if addiction has damaged agency, the person must be willing to reach out, to ask for help,

to at least want to change.

Being involved in a support group will allow the individual to learn honesty,

transparency, and humility from others who have walked a similar road and found success. This process will also allow individuals to provide service as they support others in recovery.

It is important to seek out a therapist who understands the addictive and compulsive nature of pornography use, as some therapists are sympathetic to the pornography industry.

It is essential to avoid therapists who teach principles counter to the law of chastity. Some will find recovery and healing.

Some will continue to use pornography throughout their lives.

Some marriages will heal and some will end.

We can't judge what we think they will do, though.

Some will find recovery later in life, perhaps in another marriage if the wounds are too deep for the current spouse. Our ministry is to always hold out hope and follow the example of the Savior and saying to them, Neither do I condemn thee. And encouraging them to go and sin no more.

The Savior even told us to continue to minister to those who struggle, saying to the Nephite, “for ye know not but what they will return

and repent, and come unto me with full purpose of heart,

and I shall heal them. And ye shall be the means of bringing salvation to them.”

We will do well to follow the counsel of Elder Neal A. Maxwell regarding those recovering from deep spiritual and emotional wounds.

“Real faith, however, is required to endure this necessary but painful developmental process. As things unfold, sometimes in full view, let us be merciful with each other.

We certainly do not criticize hospital patients amid intensive care for looking pale and preoccupied.

Why then those recovering from surgery on their souls? No need for us to stare;

those stitches will finally come out.

And in this hospital, too,

it is important for everyone to remember that the hospital chart is not the patient. Extending our mercy to someone need not wait upon our full understanding of their challenges! Empathy may not be appreciated or reciprocated,

but empathy is never wasted.”

Such returning souls often stagger into bishop’s offices and into recovery meetings, anxious and afraid.

But like the returning prodigal son who finally came to himself on a special day, their homeward steps

are seen and anticipated by a loving father.

Even though spiritually still a great way off from his wholeness,

these returning sons and daughters don’t need to meet Him halfway.

A few steps will do. He will run to them,

embrace them with His grace, and rejoice in the returning prodigal.

My message to all who struggle from this or similar problems is simple.

Take those first steps. Just desire to believe that He can change you and me. Just give it a minute, an hour. He will turn that hour into a day, a month, a year, a decade, a lifetime, and yes, into an eternity.

He will create beauty for ashes.

And create in us a new heart and a new spirit. Where there was lust,

He will create love. Where there was despair from betrayal,

He will create wholeness and steadfast trust in Him.

Smiles will again light the faces of the hopeless, and eyes that could only see sin will be opened so they can see eternity.

When I was about three, my parents took me to the county fair.

It's one of my earliest memories.

I was amazed at the bright lights, the sounds, the cotton candy,

it was sensory overload. And being a very active child, according to my parents, I excitedly ran too far and became lost.

I still remember my young despair and fear.

Somebody saw a little boy crying for his parent

and took me to an area for a little lost souls like myself, a sort of kiddy corral.

I still remember my joy when my parents came to this lost and found.

I remember embracing them as if I never wanted to let them go

and never, ever wanting to be separated from them again.

Sometimes life is like that fair and we are like the young me.

We’re captivated by the lights, the sounds, we run where we shouldn’t, and then we are lost. Fortunately, there are those who recognize our plight and help us find our parents again.

No wonder the Lord refers to us all as little children.

He still feels that way about us, and He sees us in that light.

It's with a tenderness that we can't completely comprehend, like something we feel when we hold our little ones and look into those eyes.

Brothers and sisters, we have all been, to some degree or another, rescued as I was at the fair. It is our great privilege now to look for lost souls, shattered by sin and betrayal, crying for their parents, and help them with that reunion.

We are not alone in our service.

And we will have unseen hands and hearts helping in this healing mission.

And it won’t be just those we serve who will change. Such service will change us profoundly and deeply. Recently, I had just such a sacred experience.

I had just finished performing sealings in a proxy session in the temple.

We had been blessed with a sweet spirit as we performed that marvelous work.

I thanked those who had participated and invited them to spend some time in the celestial room as they exited the sealing room.

After everyone had left, a couple paused at the door

before leaving the room. They then came back in.

And the brother said Do you remember me?

For a moment I didn't.

And then he said,

the meetings. It had been many years, but the 12 years Jan and I served as missionaries in the recovery meetings came back and I remembered

this brother.

I remembered him first coming to the meetings, facing the challenges of recovery, the pain of a damaged relationship with a spouse. I remembered his first steps back toward the light, of trying to find his parents after having become lost at the fair. Now he and his wife are sitting with me, the three of us alone in a sealing room.

It was a meeting that only God could have arranged.

We shared our mutual gratitude for the Savior and for each other.

A brother who had found what was now years of recovery from addiction, a sister who expressed joy in finding her husband again. After a few precious moments together, they left to go enjoy some time in the celestial room. I sat alone,

my eyes moist and my heart full, and I had a glimpse of what it will be like there, in that next reunion,

in a similar place with those we love and serve.

In the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.