Cute Story

For Family Home Evening tonight, we are talking about speaking kindly to one another (seems to be a frequent theme.) I found the cutest story by Clare Mishica in the Friend. Just in case anybody else needs toaddress this with their family, here is the link: http://lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=21bc9fbee98db010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD&locale=0&sourceId=5b76d9ab50758110VgnVCM100000176f620a____The
I also really loved the quote at the end, and since it is much shorter, I will include it in this blog!

“None of us need one more person … pointing out where we have failed or fallen short. … What each of us does need is family … who believe in us, and who believe we’re trying to do the best we can.”
Elder Marvin J. Ashton of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles (1915–94)2

Not only good for siblings, but also for parents. Sometimes I fall into the pattern of constantly getting after the kids for what they do wrong. They are so eager to please and quick to forgive and easy to love.

Today is my first day of several new goals. New goal #1: Spend as much time preparing for our Family Home Evening as I do for my lessons at church--why should my kids get jipped? New goal #2: Read the Book of Mormon by May 10...it's called the Hinckley Challenge. Check out the website: www.hinckleychallenge.com. New Goal #3: This is actually an old goal that I am newly starting AGAIN...to read one chapter from the Old Testament everyday until I finish it. I love the story of Sister Hinckley making a goal to read one chapter from all four standard works every day, and then she writes to her daughter, "I am on day 4 and I am only 3 days behind." I love it! She was human too!

Speaking of the Hinckleys, and referring back to a previous blog, I read a profound quote from President Hinckley on loneliness. It is from a talk titled, "The Loneliness of Leadership." In it he says, "The price of leadership is loneliness. The price of adherence to principle is loneliness...A man has to live iwth his principles. A man has to live with his convictions. A man has to live with his testimony. Unless he does so, he is miserable--dreadfully miserable. And while there may be thorns, while there may be disappointment, while there may be trouble and travail, heartache and heartbreak, and desperate loneliness, there will be peace and comfort and strength."

Everybody is going to think that I am really lonely and depressed over here. I am actually not. I have been very blessed with wonderful friends both near and far. Of course, I have the occasional lonely pangs of life, but nothing too severe.