Tuesday, July 20, 2010

I believe in Christ

I've had a lot of things on my mind lately.
The past, the present, the future...
you know, small things like that.

Tonight, as I worked on a quilt that will someday
be my new bedspread,
I decided to listen to a talk by Richard G. Scott.
He is one of 12 apostles of the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
Perhaps most importantly,
he's a special witness of Jesus Christ.

Listening to him share his own testimony of Christ
and of the blessing of repentance and forgiveness
I was reminded that I know the truth of those things too.
I know that Jesus Christ lives.
I know we have a Heavenly Father and that he loves you and me.
He loves the very worst sinner as much
as the new born child.
I learned that principle several years back -
that no matter what we do -
he loves us tremendously.
He always will.
That it is never too late to repent.
We have never done anything too wrong
that we can't be forgiven.
That is the blessing of the Atonement of Jesus Christ.
His perfect sacrifice for each of us.
He did it, so we could repent.
So we could be forgiven.
So we could become clean again.
I will forever be in his debt.
It is His love I seek to feel
and His love I hope to emulate.

If you would like to listen
to Elder Richard G. Scott's talk
please click the link below.

If you wish to read it
please, click the following link.

Friday, June 18, 2010

It's my birthday!!!!! (tomorrow)

Yay for birthdays and surviving another year.
That's what a birthday is... a celebration of living another year!!!
So, here's to more birthdays and more celebrations!!!

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Visitors

Yay for visitors!! Among the many wonderful things
about living in Boston,
is that soooo many people want to come visit!
Including one of my old kindergarten students and her mom
(she's getting ready to enter 5th grade now!!).
We had a blast!!!!

We......
went to a Red Sox game (they won!!).....

we went to the beach (notice the hats).....

again, notice the hats. They purchased these beauties in
the Minneapolis/St. Paul airport on their way here and
thought it would be fun to have matching hats.
Oh, and so that I would be sure to notice them
as I picked them up from the airport.
We had a remarkable number of people comment on them
as we went to the beach, museums, and tourist shops.
Big Bonus with hats like these:
when you scan the crowd searching for each other
all you have to look for is a sparkly hat!

Another day at the beach. I tried waxing eloquent with my camera
I have an unbelievable number of sand, rock, and ocean shots. This is one of them....

And lastly, my pretty bruise that I got from tripping and falling
onto something on the Mayflower II.
It matches my skirt, at least.
I was quite taken with the colors of my pretty not-so-little
bruise and was a little sad to see it fade away!

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

A Father Indeed

A wonderful man and the type of man every woman hopes to find.