Ding (lightbulb turning on)

Today during RS I was really struck by something. Now this is something I've always known, but it really hit me today. I'm not really sure why.

Someone made the comment that when we look at our ancestors we go back generation to generation. When we look at our spiritual ancestry we are just directly linked with our Father in Heaven. Obviously I know that I am a daughter of God. But what really struck me is that my children are not my children. My parents are not my parents. Not on a spiritual sense anyways. They truly are my brothers and sisters. There is no line to Heavenly Father. We are all his children. We are sealed together, but not necessarily as daughters and sons but as brothers and sisters. We will all be friends/equals in eternity. It truly is a great responsibility to raise up my friends, my sisters and brother. After this life they will be just like me and I have to take responsibility for what happens to them on this earth, for the things they learn and the people they have been taught to become. (Obviously they have their agency, they will grow up and make their own choices, but what they are taught at home impacts them forever.) In Heaven they won't actually be my children. They will be adult spirits just like me.

This is really an odd thing to hit me so strongly today, and like I said I'm not sure why, but it does make me even more grateful that Heavenly Father trusts us so much that he is willing to let us take the responsibility of training, teaching and caring for our spirit siblings :)