Comment sent to a 79-year-old brother in the Church, who pines out of loneliness after his wife passed away 13 months ago. I had asked him if he had felt close to his wife while in the temple.
He responded that he had not, even though he had attended weekly and spent a lot of time in the celestial room.
I responded: Thanks for sharing. I wouldn’t be too concerned about not feeling close to her. I suspect it’s not necessarily common to feel the closeness of a deceased spouse in the temple. That is not the purpose of the temple. It’s simply that something happens occasionally for some people (but not very many, from my observations). I suspect the Lord doesn’t make that one of the main purposes of the temple (to be a conduit into the spirit world) because we would linger and not move on with our lives--something He wants us to do so He can continue to use us as an instrument in His hands to move forward in good works (church and community service, helping our families, home teaching, encouraging and lifting others, sharing the gospel, seeking out temple names, etc.—all the good things you’re doing) to bless His children while we’re still in mortality.
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