And he shall send his angels...

"And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other." - Matthew 24:31

I'm going to grant myself a rare religious indulgence today. This past week my wife and kids had the remarkable privilege of watching as the signature ornament of LDS temples, and the prevailing symbol of the LDS faith as a whole - the statue of the Angel Moroni - was lifted to the top of the Oquirrh Mountain Temple currently under construction in our soon-to-be neighborhood in South Jordan.

I remember hearing President Hinckley years ago refer to the temple as "a monument to our belief in the immortality of the human soul." Without a doubt, the work performed inside of these "monuments" revolves around the eternal and immortal, and witnesses to our belief that "as certain as there is life here, there will be life there." (Source)

Reminders of mortality are omnipresent: the propaganda of the ephemeral. It is wonderful to see that image of a heavenly angel raise his trumpet into the air to stir in ourselves the remembrance of our own immortality and greater purpose.

"Have miracles ceased? Behold I say unto you, Nay; neither have angels ceased to minister unto the children of men." - Moroni 7:29

Video: KSL, KUTV