“I do not know who in this vast audience
today may need to hear the message of forgiveness inherent
in this parable, but however late you think you are, however many chances you
think you have missed, however many mistakes you feel you have made or talents
you think you don’t have, or however far from home and family and God you feel
you have traveled, I testify that you have not traveled beyond the reach
of divine love. It is not possible for you to sink lower than the infinite
light of Christ’s Atonement shines.
Whether you are not yet of our faith or
were with us once and have not remained, there is nothing in either case that
you have done that cannot be undone. There is no problem which you cannot
overcome. There is no dream that in the unfolding of time and eternity cannot
yet be realized. Even if you feel you are the lost and last laborer of the
eleventh hour, the Lord of the vineyard still stands beckoning. “Come boldly
[to] the throne of grace,” and fall at the feet of the Holy One of Israel. Come
and feast “without money and without price”4 at the table of the
Lord.” Jeffrey R. Holland, 2012 April General Conference, The Laborers in the
Vineyard
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