Changes

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.