I started an update but I only got as far as the title(Creation). When I went back to try to finish, I decided the title said it all. I really love the photo of the thistles. It is a shot I took down at the ranch when we were home for Will's funeral. They are reminiscent to me of life;' stickery and stunningly beautiful!
We have had such fun watching Ella and Cavin lately. Ella is such a pistol and so dang sharp and Cavin is growing with 'fast forward' speed and his little personality is just 'popping' out all over, just like he is popping up everywhere; he is getting so good at his 'all fours' crawl and he is unstoppable at the army crawl and he pops up over the rail of his crib and he pops up as soon as he hits the floor which is where he wants to be cause that signals freedom. And he has gotten that little mischievous gleam in his eye that makes you smile and cringe all at the same time. They are such darling and adorable children. There really aren't words to describe the joy of seeing them everyday or watching Caden on Skype or hearing John and Madi come through that front door. And then there are my really fairly amazing kids who are their parents. I am really in awe of the great gifts of heaven that these people are to me and to the world at large. Missa who is now two semesters away from student teaching and graduation and a light in the life of kids who have been challenged by developmental delays; Lisa who is a remarkabley committed mom and wife when there isn't much support in the world for such devotion; Chris who listens to the spirit and allows it to guide him through work and church duties and responsiblities and who is a joyful father; Corey whose curiosity and desire to know more hasn't ceased in the 30 plus years he has been hanging here on this planet (he was probably Curious Geroge way before that) and the methodical way that he applies those acquired skills and bodies of information is really very inspiring even instructional to watch; then Nan who is courage personified; it is required in every footstep she takes but she keeps stepping. It is all stuff I have been reflecting on lately and with world conditions seeming a bit out of control, it is great to remember that there is much good as well. Thanks for being good, guys!
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About Me
- Terryl
- I am a small town girl living in a city that thankfully doesn't feel overly city-ish. We have five fabulous kids and seven really fabulous grandkids and have been married to a good old guy for 34 years.
Quotes
"We note that not only has the Savior suffered, in His case entirely innocently, but so have most of the prophets and other great men and women recorded in the scriptures. Name an ...apostle....any of the leaders in any dispensation....and you name someone who has had trouble. My point? If you are having a bad day, you've had a lot of company---very, very good company. The best company that has ever lived." Jeffery R. Holland
"To yearn to go back to a world that cannot be lived in now; to be perennially dissatisfied with present circumstances and have only dismal views of the future; to miss the here and now and tomorrow because we are so trapped in the here and then and yesterday---these are some of the sins...of Lot's wife." Jeffery R. Holland
"There is something in us, at least in too many of us, that particularly fails to forgive and forget earlier mistakes in life--either mistakes we ourselves have made or the mistakes of others. It is not Christian. It stands in terrible opposition to the grandeur and majesty of the Atonement of Christ.
To be tied to earlier mistakes---our own or other people's--is the worst kind of wallowing in the past from which we are called to cease and desist." Jeffery R. Holland
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
Abraham Lincoln
"I truly believe there can be no "casual Christians" for if we are not watchful and resolute, we will become in the heat of the battle a Christian "casualty".
Jeffrey R. Holland
"You are not singular in your suspicions that you know but little...the longer I live, the more I read, the more patiently I think, and the more anxiously I inquire, the less I seem to know....Do justly. Love mercy. Walk humbly. This is enough." John Adams to his grandaughter Caroline
Speaking of unity; ".......He cannot grant it to us as individuals. The joy of unity He wants so much to give us is not solitary."
Henry B. Eyring
"I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom and that of all around me seemed insufficient for that day."
Abraham Lincoln
"If it is desirable that children be kind, appreciative and pleasant, then those qualities should be taught, not hoped for."
James Dobson
"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude."
Thomas Jefferson
"To yearn to go back to a world that cannot be lived in now; to be perennially dissatisfied with present circumstances and have only dismal views of the future; to miss the here and now and tomorrow because we are so trapped in the here and then and yesterday---these are some of the sins...of Lot's wife." Jeffery R. Holland
"There is something in us, at least in too many of us, that particularly fails to forgive and forget earlier mistakes in life--either mistakes we ourselves have made or the mistakes of others. It is not Christian. It stands in terrible opposition to the grandeur and majesty of the Atonement of Christ.
To be tied to earlier mistakes---our own or other people's--is the worst kind of wallowing in the past from which we are called to cease and desist." Jeffery R. Holland
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
Abraham Lincoln
"I truly believe there can be no "casual Christians" for if we are not watchful and resolute, we will become in the heat of the battle a Christian "casualty".
Jeffrey R. Holland
"You are not singular in your suspicions that you know but little...the longer I live, the more I read, the more patiently I think, and the more anxiously I inquire, the less I seem to know....Do justly. Love mercy. Walk humbly. This is enough." John Adams to his grandaughter Caroline
Speaking of unity; ".......He cannot grant it to us as individuals. The joy of unity He wants so much to give us is not solitary."
Henry B. Eyring
"I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom and that of all around me seemed insufficient for that day."
Abraham Lincoln
"If it is desirable that children be kind, appreciative and pleasant, then those qualities should be taught, not hoped for."
James Dobson
"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude."
Thomas Jefferson
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