Jan 18, 2012

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.

2 comments:

  1. Okay, we REALLY need to catch up! Please tell me you're still in the P'ville ward! Please.

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  2. this is sweet. we are all so blessed. go ahead, mix style and decor with personal! it's all you.

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