Celestial Marriage

I would like to focus my thoughts on some things I had not fully realized.  I loved these quotes from Elder Bednar’s talk, “Honorable Hold a Name and a Standing”.
These scriptures help us understand that the process
of taking upon ourselves the name of Jesus Christ that is
commenced in the waters of baptism is continued and
enlarged in the house of the Lord. As we stand in the waters
of baptism, we look to the temple. As we partake of the
sacrament, we look to the temple. We pledge to always
remember the Savior and to keep His commandments as
preparation to participate in the sacred ordinances of the
temple and receive the highest blessings available through
the name and by the authority of the Lord Jesus Christ. Thus,
in the ordinances of the holy temple we more completely and
fully take upon us the name of Jesus Christ.

I had not previously thought that part of the baptismal covenants we make at baptism were completed in the temple.  It makes sense that our covenants are interconnected, I just had not thought of them in that way.
I also love a quote from the talk by Bruce R. McConkie entitled, “Celestial Marriage”.
We cannot shout praises to the name of the Lord
Jehovah, who is the Lord Jesus, to the extent that we should
in order to honor him properly for all that he has done for
us and for the possibilities that lie ahead because he took
upon himself our sins on conditions of repentance. The work
of God the Father was creation, and the work of Christ the
Son was redemption. We are men, and our work—building
on the foundation that God our Father laid and that Christ
his Son has established—is to do the part assigned to us in
order to inherit the glory and honor and dignity of which
I speak. In general terms, that means that we are to accept
and believe the law. We are to believe in Christ and live his
law, be upright and clean, have our sins washed away in the
waters of baptism, become new creatures by the power of the
Holy Ghost, and walk in paths of truth and righteousness.

I feel this can be applied to how often and how seriously we attend to our responsibility to attend the temple and keep our temple covenants.

Going back to President Bednar's talk, he says,
“I have come to understand better the protection available through our
temple covenants and what it means to make an acceptable
offering of temple worship. There is a difference between
church-attending, tithe-paying members who occasionally
rush into the temple to go through a session and those
members who faithfully and consistently worship in the
temple.”
This gives me a desire to make it a priority to not only attend the temple, but to attend regularly and to help my children to have the opportunity to attend as well.