I Know that My Redeemer Lives

This month I've had the chance to teach sharing time in primary (oh, right by the way I got a new calling!) and each lesson has revolved around Jesus Christ being our Savior. I'm so grateful that I have had the chance to teach and prepare, it has made it all so fresh in my mind today. We've talked about how Christ is our example. That because of Christ's Atonement, we can repent and live with God again. That because Jesus Christ was resurrected, we will be too, and that Jesus Christ is our Savior. So in preparing these lessons I have obviously been thinking a lot about what Christ has done for these children, for me, and for my family. But it wasn't until today during Sacrament meeting (the first hour of our meeting block where we meet as a congregation and partake of the Sacrament) when a friend of mine was giving her talk (sermon) that the full import of what Christ, my Savior, has and will do for my family.
I know that Jesus Christ was resurrected, and that he lives. This means that he has broken the bonds of death, and that I will live again. You will live again. And not just in any body though, Christ made it so we will live again and that our bodies will be perfect. And then it hit me, Ezra my sweet child, will have a perfect body. Ezra will hear again, he will walk, he will talk to me, he will hold my hand, and he will be able to talk and play with Hyrum in the ways I always envisioned them doing. Oh, the scope that the Atonement covers! The sadness that comes from limitations that my kids may have, the loss of a loved one, or the pain of sin are only temporary, because of the Atonement.
I know Christ is our Savior. I know that he preformed the Atonement on our behalf so that we too can live again and be made clean. What a joyful reminder this has been for me. The importance of this sacred truth has never hit me so hard. Never before have I felt this so deeply to be true, "What joy this sentence gives, I know that my Redeemer Lives!"

Below is a link to a video that I really enjoyed. You may have to scroll down just a little bit to see it though.

His Sacred Name--An Easter Declaration