I would like to share with you the words of Apostle Joseph B. Wirthlin, shortly after losing his wife Elisa. They had been married 65 years. He described of the pain of losing a loved one: “It gnaws at your soul.”
Then he said, “I think of how dark that Friday was when Jesus Christ was lifted up on the cross. On that Friday the Apostles were devastated. Jesus, their Savior—the man who had walked on water and raised the dead— was humiliated and bruised, abused and reviled. I think that of all the days since the beginning of this world’s history, that Friday was the darkest.
But the doom of that day did not endure. The despair did not linger because on Sunday, the resurrected Lord burst the bonds of death. He ascended from the grave and appeared gloriously triumphant as the Savior of all mankind.
And in an instant the eyes that had been filled with tears dried. The lips that had whispered prayers of grief now filled the air with praise, for Jesus the Christ, the Son of the living God, stood before them as the firstfruits of the Resurrection, the proof that death is merely the beginning of a new and wondrous existence.
The Resurrection is the reuniting of the spirit and body in its perfect form. Can you imagine that? Life at our prime? Never sick, never in pain, never burdened by the ills that so often beset us in mortality?
Each of us will have our own Fridays—those days when the universe itself seems shattered and the shards of our world lie littered about us in pieces. We all will experience those broken times when it seems we can never be put together again. We will all have our Fridays. But I testify to you in the name of the One who conquered death—no matter how dark our Friday, Sunday will come.”
Abridged by me from Elder Wirthlin’s talk “Sunday Will Come” https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/2006/10/sunday-will-come?lang=eng
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