The Garden Tomb

Today after church I was able to visit the Garden Tomb again. Whether or not it truly was the place that Jesus was placed after his death and was then resurrected, I do not know. But I do know that He died and that He lives again! And that's what really matters.

In President Monson's talk "He Is Risen" he said,

"For us our Heavenly Father gave His Son. For us our Elder Brother gave His life.

At the last moment the Master could have turned back. But He did not. He passed beneath all things that He might save all things: the human race, the earth, and all the life that ever inhabited it.

No words in Christendom mean more to me than those spoken by the angel to the weeping Mary Magdalene and the other Mary as they approached the tomb to care for the body of their Lord: “Why seek ye the living among the dead? He is not here, but is risen” (Luke 24:5–6).

With this pronouncement, those who have lived and died, those who now live and one day will die, and those yet to be born and yet to die had just been rescued."

Sometimes I forget that I live in the Holy Land. It's day like these that I am reminded again how lucky I am to be here. :)