MY DREAM
I dreamed my Father called me home
Across the great divide.
I was very much bewildered,
I thought surely I had died.

St. Peter met me at the gate,
He said, “Come follow me
There is something I must show to you
Something you must see.”

  1. •Then I saw rows of people
  2. Standing in a line,
  3. And when I looked them over,
  4. They were relatives of mine.

  6. There was my great grandparents,
  7. Whom I was glad to see
  8. But when I walked toward them,
  9. They turned away from me.
  10. Then I saw my cousins,
  11. My uncles and my aunts.
  12. They looked at me accusingly,
  13. And said we never had a chance.
  14. To do the work that must be done
  15. To start us on the way
  16. To gain for us eternal life,
  17. So here we have to stay.
  18. mother and my father too
  19. standing far apart.
  20. looked at me disappointed,
  21. made the tear drops start.
  22. I turned and saw my Savior,
  23. His face there was a frown.
  24. “died upon the cross for them
  25. you have let them down.”

  27. “Behold your noble ancestors
  28. Waiting for the day
  29. you to open up the gate
  30. start them on their way.”
  31. heart was filled with sorrow
  32. I looked these people o’er.
  33. blinding tears ran down my face,
  34. I turned to Him once more.
  35. Blessed Savior, send me back,
  36. make another try.
  37. do the work for all my kin,
  38. I’m not prepared to die.
  39. will not leave a single one,
  40. so ashamed dear Lord.
  41. do every ordinance
  42. According to your word.
  43. I awoke, the dream was gone,
  44. had not passed away.
  45. I made a resolution
  46. start that very day.
  47. Baptism, Endowments, Sealings
  48. found were just a few.
  49. more I searched and searched
  50. more I found to do.
  51. I will keep on hunting
  52. searching all the while.
  53. Next time I meet my ancestors,
  54. I’ll meet them with a smile.
  55. Anon. Taken from the www 23 July 1999
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