“Be Familiar with All”
Zion is characterized by a free and open union among people on social, economic, and spiritual grounds. Zion is a people who are “of one heart and one mind,” a people who dwell “in righteousness; and there [is] no poor among them” (Moses 7:18). Babylon contains cliques and caste systems and distance and discrimination. The word familiar is from the same root as the word family; to be familiar with all is to treat all men and women as members of the family, to extend the fellowship and love and resources of the family to all who stand in need, to establish Zion-heaven on earth. Such is but a preparation for that which is to come, for we have been taught that the “same sociality which exists among us here will exist among us there, only it will be coupled with eternal glory, which glory we do not now enjoy” (D&C 130:2).
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