So how personal do you get on your blog? Do you just let it hang out there indiscriminately or do you edit edit edit and keep it unemotional? I have been debating this for a long time. I have friends and am a fan of several blogs that are more personal about their lives and that's probably why I like to read them. But then again I do like the other blogs that show their interior talents in and out doors.
Our family is going through a major change in location. After living and enjoying our home
for 12 years we have moved. We are in escrow right now with our former home and
I am so happy for the family that is moving into our home. They are actually the daughter
and son-in-law of our neighbors. They have a 3 year old daughter and 4 1/2 month old
girl and boy twins. It's a new adventure for them to have their first home and
its a new adventure for us. We have been very blessed and that is an understatement. I firmly believe to my very core that we have a Heavenly Father that knows us individually and loves us as a Father loves his child, so much that he knows our needs. I believe that
if we are obedient to his commandments and strive to do what is right, He will bless
us, I can't stress this enough. I am not kidding when I say that I wake up
each day thanking him for my many blessings. Sometimes, (scratch that) I have been
thinking very recently that I can't believe the blessings that our family has been blessed with. It's like a dream that I'm in and I can't believe it's happening or I'm in disbelief and I hope that
I am worthy of them. I want to be. I will work my darnedest to make sure that
I am worthy of them. Do you ever wonder when a blessing comes out of no where, it just floors you?
And another thing, Last year I took up the "Face Book Read the Book of Mormon Challenge" so I made a point every morning before work to read aka listen to the scriptures. I
finished Christmas Morning. I feel that by making that effort, I felt so blessed and at peace because of it. This year I know that I need to
do the same. It's a new year, new challenges, new opportunities and blessings await.
The EFY theme for 2002 was this song for the youth:
Stand in Holy PlacesIn a sea shifting values
Tossed on every wave
While the winds wail around me
I will not be afraid To call out for my captain
To calm the waves in me
When I stand a little taller
Its only then I finally see
Chorus:
I stand in holy places
Protected from the storm
Anchored safe in harbor
Tough my sails are ripped and worn
I stand in holy places
And I will not move
Until the Lord has come
And says Well done
He is the hope
I hold on to
In holy places
There is a harbor in His holy house
An anchor in His grace
That steadies in the waves of doubt
And in every holy places
No matter where I travel
His spirits guiding me
With the Lord as my captain
There is a peaceful port in me
I hope I can do the same.