Atonement

"To atone is to suffer" suffer.... Such a terrible and horrifying word, i know because i looked up suffer to find a image for this post. what i found was unspeakable! that's when i realized there was no image or way to explain what our father and his son went through. how amazing our brother was to be the only mortal man able to survive the atonement process. he suffered for all the sins of souls to walk this world. after looking up suffer and seeing just a small window of suffering, pain and sin i don't know how its possible for any person, man or god, to endure such horrific suffering. It truly blows my mind! and to ask something like this to your son! no father could watch his own son suffer without suffering himself. so why?...  It is because it was our greatest gift of all, the gift to one day return to our father and live with eternal life. no one is perfect, which is why the atonement came to be. It happened so each and everyone of us was given the chance to repent for our sins and follow the path to eternal life. I for one will use my free agency to cherish this gift, atone for my own sins and one day benefit from the atonement.