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What do you see?

This week end I listened to this, every single word and hymn.
What difference does it make in my life?
I guess it can be best told like this:
Saturday morning,  I lamented that I had just cleaned the bay window and yet....

All those streaks. Grrrr. Oh, I went on and on grumbling. Frustrated. Just down right grumpy.
RR walked by and said, "Arlene, look at how nice the flowers are."

That's right. That picture is taken 'through' that streaky window. Don't they look great? The beautiful final flowers of Fall.
That, my friends is what listening to every word every hymn did for me.
It helped me to see better.
To see past the streaks and smudges and overwhelming issues that are so up close, in our face and every present and see past them.
To see the beauty just beyond the streaky window.
And that even with the streaks up close and ever present at the SAME TIME there is still beauty just beyond, just look and see.

Gentle and Loving

Having a life threatening disease changes you. It does something to the inside-where-you-live-part-of-you and makes you and your life different.
I no longer have a life-threatening disease (thank you, dear Loving Heavenly Father) but something inside has changed. I want to be different.
First a picture. It is our son with his China doll baby and her Great-grandmother, who happens to be 97 and mostly blind and can see only shadows and shapes.

Can you feel what I feel when I see this picture? Gentle and loving. Gentle and loving. Both the Grandson and the Grandma. See it?
That is what I want to be...more gentle and loving.
So my Valentine this year....

"gentle and loving in deed and in thought"
From the song by Janice Kapp Perry
(wait for the song to load..click on words and music - enjoy)
I’m trying to be like Jesus;
I’m following in his ways.
I’m trying to love as he did,
in all that I do and say.
At times I am tempted to make a wrong choice,
but I try to listen as the still small voice whispers:
"Love one another as Jesus loves you.
Try to show kindness in all that you do.
Be gentle and loving in added and in thought,
For these are the things Jesus taught."

Even if...........

One doesn't revere him as a Prophet of God...Gordon B Hinckley

(WHICH I DO)...he was a mighty man, a Christian in every sense of the word, visionary, a force for good the world around.
We mourn his passing.
It is bitter sweet, because we, as members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, believe in eternal life and that families can be together forever, we rejoice to know he is with his beloved Marjorie again. She died April 7th 2004 at 92.

Someone once wrote - "If people believe Mormons are not Christians, just have them look at this picture."
I personally will miss his optimism, the sense of calm and the 'okay-ness' I felt every time I heard him speak.
If you'd like to know more about the Church that mourns our beloved prophet. Go here. The video clips share answers to questions about basic doctrines.

Miracles thoughts....

"It can't be a miracle unless it is impossible." Craig Lybbert

"To deny the reality of miracles  on the ground that the results and manifestations must be fictious simply because we cannot comprehend the means by which they have happened is arrogant on the face of it."
Howard W Hunter

I have a couple miracles I'm praying for.....how about you?