When we come to God’s great commandments to love Him and those around us by covenant, we do so not as stranger or guest but as His child at home.¹ The age-old paradox is still true. In losing our worldly self through covenant belonging, we find and become our best eternal self²—free, alive, real—and define our most important relationships. Covenant belonging is to make and keep solemn promises to God and each other through sacred ordinances that invite the power of godliness to be manifest in our lives.³ When we covenant all we are, we can become more than we are. Covenant belonging gives us place, narrative, capacity to become. It produces faith unto life and salvation.⁴ – Gerrit W. Gong, “Covenant Belonging,” Ensign (CR) November 2019