New Favorite Quote:

"Forgiveness is giving up hope that the past could have been different"
      -Author Unknown

Thanks Oprah- loved this thought.

"No Completely Private Choices"

Found this quote while teaching my last lesson. How true it is!


Elder James E. Faust said: “Private choices are not private; they all have public consequences. … Our society is the sum total of what millions of individuals do in their private lives. That sum total of private behavior has worldwide public consequences of enormous magnitude. There are no completely private choices” (in Conference Report, Apr. 1987, 101; or Ensign, May 1987, 80).

The Best Things in Life Aren't Things by Joann Davis

A list of wonders to warm your heart and lift your spirits.

1. The feel of the grass tickling your toes.
2. Coming home.
3. Singing in the shower.
4. Spotting a firefly in summer.
5. Dancing until dawn.
6. Catching raindrops with your tongue.
7. Holding a baby kitten.
8. Running into an old friend.
9. Reading a love letter.
10. Writing a love letter.
11. Walking down a Country Road.
12. Turning the radio on and hearing 'our song'.
13. The smell of fresh baked bread.
14. Seeing a splash of color in the sky at sunset.
15. A sleeping baby.
16. The chatter of a babbling brook.
17. Holding hands.
18. Lunching with a friend.
19. Taking a nap.
20. Counting a babies toes.
21. Snuggling on a cold night.
22. Finding old photos
23. Climbing into a bed with clean sheets.
24. Eating vegetables from your own garden.
25. Daydreaming
26. The fresh morning dew on the grass.
27. Belly laughing.
28. Smelling flowers in bloom.
29. Finding peace of mind.
30. Fall leaves in full color.


Had this little ditty hanging on my fridge for years. It carried me through many a cabin fever. Now with the new kitchen I cannot bare to clutter up my fridge...with even my favorite things. Only one problem with this idealistic thinking is that school is in session, so the fridge will soon become a magnetized recycle bin that does not get cycled through as often as it should. Who invented magnets anyway? Love and hate those handy little pesky things!

Anyhow,

I'm recycling this to the blogosphere. After all these years it still hits home, especially today. I'm thankful for others good words that carry me out of my funk days.

Words

Been thinking about this topic over the last several months now.

There is such power in words we do not say. Why do we choose to hold back some verses others? Are we really doing ourselves and others a service or an injustice? What purposes does holding back serve us or the intended receiver of our words? Why not courage ahead, choosing our words wisely and just let go of what we wish we would have, could have, should have said...and just say it?

Finally laying out the unspoken on the table, no matter how long it has been, has a way of healing and teaching us despite the outcome. The choice to say what needs to be said or what should have been said is hard, absolutely frightening, yet so liberating! What better reason do we need?

John Mayer has a song entitled Say. It has become my new motto.
Enjoy the song with its lyrics here.

A Good Point

“I would like to beg you… as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer. Perhaps you do carry within you the possibility of creating and forming, as an especially blessed and pure way of living; … but take whatever comes, with great trust… and don’t hate anything.” (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet)