Last Monday evening my wife and I took a coworker of mine to visit Temple Square in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah. As we walked around the temple and through the visitor's centers, it simply felt good to be there. Temple Square has so much history but was constructed through so much sacrifice that the Holy Spirit seems especially present there. There is a special peace that I feel whenever I visit the grounds of an LDS Temple. It is easier to feel calm and at peace inside of myself when I am there. I know that one of the greatest blessings that I find in the gospel is experiencing peace. It is very easy for me to become busy or to get caught up in the thick of thin things, but keeping the commandments of God, particularly reading his word in the Scriptures and also speaking with him through prayer, fills me with a sense of peace and serenity. There is a prayer whose origin I do not remember but that includes the statement "God grant me serenity." And I believe that he does.
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