My soul is swallowed up in God. As to
the things of this world, they are lost to me. i do not feel concerning them as
I have heretofore; I care only for the things of eternity. When I behold the
great things of God and the glory which awaits the righteous, and when I
reflect that the road is so straight that but few find it, I feel to pray the
Lord to bless my children and save them. I am thankful to God because I live in
a day when some will find it, and will become gods.
A man may become god as Jesus Christ
did. For this he must prepare himself while in the flesh, that he may be
enthroned as a judge is enthroned. I have a desire that my children may be
crowned, and if I be enthroned I want to have the privilege of wafting myself,
by the power of God, to visit my children. Everything we see here is typical of
what we will be hereafter. (Heber C. Kimball, "Address to my
children," The Improvement Era 13, no. 11 [September 1910]: 989)
