Blessings

Bobby Jo, a very special person, a friend from Jr High and High School is sick, going through cancer treatments.  I love her blogs and am grateful for her strength and her deep convictions.   I know she will fight the best of wars on her enemy and with our Lord's help.

She tops her blog with words from one of my favorite LDS hymns, Count Your Blessings, pg 241.  

I believe this is as true now as it was when it was written all those years ago.

"Count your many Blessings; Angels will attend, Help and comfort give you to your Journey’s end."

Lest we never forget, from where all our blessing come from.

My Saddest Heart

Sometimes you just can't wrap your mind around things that naturally happen in our world, like earthquakes, floods, tsunamis and tragic fires. But it is even more unbelievable when something happens that one person purposely caused.  Josh how could you?

The one thing that is impossible to still believe is Josh Powell killing his innocent little boys, and even more unimaginable is how he did it.

How could a father do this? He was really a monster. His thoughts probably were that if he could not control his boys, no one would. Such a horrific,
selfish action.

There's a commandment of "Thou Shalt Not Kill.", but also to compound on his sins there's a scripture in Matthew 18:6 "But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea." Josh took his own pitiful life, so the sea is not an option, but I think that the eternities he has chosen to be thrown out in outer darkness is even more sad.

Our Heavenly Father tells us not to judge others, so I will try to forgive Josh, or at least not think of this sadness as best I can. I believe that ALL the atrocities and unfairness in life will be handled by the only One who can really make those decisions.

I think that Josh learned many of his terrible bad habits, selfishness, arrogance and who knows what else from his father. He is also responsible in some great part. But as stated above, the Lord will take care of him, too.

I believe he first took his wife's life, then broke all hearts when he took the sweet lives of his beautiful, innocent boys.

The only solace that I can take from this is that now Susan can raise her boys in Paradise.

I didn't know this family personally, but through all the press and news, I feel like I do somehow. I hate the exploiting of their stories, but without this news I would never have known this tragic story of real people, of a real family gone. I wish this had only been a story of fiction that I could real, not real life events.

Happy heaven to those three lost ones, who died way too early. My heartfelt prayers and thought go to them, their loved ones and friends.

*Wear blue in honor of Braden and Charlie for Blue Saturday, February 11.

Just Thinking

Just thinking....More truths I know:

I am a child of God and we all are children of God. How lucky we are!

We need to think deeply about who we are and why we are and what we want to be; having no restrictions.

Love the Season you are in; yearly and in your life. There is beauty in everything all around you.

Be grateful, nothing more needs to be said.

Do those things you love to do, but do the other things that you have to do, both should make you satisfied and someday happier and content. It is important to have control over one's life. It is a daily challenge.

There is a big difference between wants and needs.

No one should be powerless in their own life. It is the good choices that we make each day that frees us.

I do believe in "Love at first sight.", because I have experienced this with my Sweetheart, Brent.

I am so blessed, because once upon a time, but not very often in this world, in a very ordinary life, love has given me a true eternal fairytale.





Friends are an important sweetness in your life. Handle with love and care.

We have been taught that Love is the answer in almost all questions.