Unlike marriage sealings, parent-child sealings in temples do actually include the sealing of people to other people, in this case children to parents. But what is often not remembered is the fact that that sealing comes with a HUGE promise: a promise that not only will that sealing be one that brings healing to a child that will undo every harm, wrong, or pain, etc. caused by a parent who acts contrary to Jesus’s teachings about love, care, honesty, gentleness, etc. etc., but that also, it will it undo it to such an extent that it will be, in that child’s life as if he/she had been born to and raised in the new and everlasting covenant, the gospel of Jesus Christ (Doctrine and Covenants 66:2) ie. it will truly be for that child as if he/she had been raised by by parents who lived the gospel of Jesus Christ, loved Jesus and what he taught, who loved doing good, and who were kind, were faithful to each other, were are gentle and wise, were willing to make personal sacrifices to further goodness at home and in the world, were fully committed to living loving, gentle, courageous, righteous lives after the pattern of Christ, and, as a result, who wholeheartedly loved and nurtured their children in amazingly good ways.
God loves and knows us individually, is ready to assist us, loves us forever, and can “wipe away all tears”. He is amazing.
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