President Packer taught: The Atonement, which can reclaim
each one of us, bears no scars. That means that no matter what we have done or
where we have been or how something happened, if we truly repent, He has
promised that He would atone. And when He atoned, that settled that. There are
so many of us who are thrashing around, as it were, with feelings of guilt, not
knowing quite how to escape. You escape by accepting the Atonement of Christ,
and all that was heartache can turn to beauty and love and eternity.
I am so grateful for the blessings of the Lord Jesus Christ,
for the power of procreation, for the power of redemption, for the
Atonement—the Atonement which can wash clean every stain no matter how
difficult or how long or how many times repeated. The Atonement can put you free
again to move forward, cleanly and worthily, to pursue that path that you have
chosen in life. (General Conference April 2015 “The Plan of Happiness”)
