Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving! I hope that everyone has a wonderful day! Josh and I will be spending Turkey Day at home, just the 2 of us...we are missing the feast we were invited to because he is sick. Poor guy feels awful, but we will try to have a nice day. I love this picture by Norman Rockwell, it reminds me of my youth. My parents have this pic and I would stare at it as a kid and always loved how happy everyone looked (and how strong the grandma is because she is holding a HUGE turkey!!). To me, this is the essence of Thanksgiving; to be able to be together and find joy. My mom loves Thanksgiving and taught me to have a great love for this holiday. How wonderful it is to have a day to celebrate all that I am thankful for! Even though it has been a really tough year, I am so very blessed and am grateful for all that I do have. Let us all give thanks to God, the great source for all that we have.

Put in Your Pie Orders Now!

Just in time for the Thanksgiving holiday...enjoy your pumpkin pie!

Doubt Not, Fear Not

Therefore, fear not, little flock; do good; let earth and hell combine against you, for if ye are built upon my rock, they cannot prevail. Look unto me in every thought; doubt not, fear not.
~D&C 6:34, 36

I love this little reminder and promise that in all things, the Lord is with me...a lesson I've been learning (and re-learning) for the past few weeks.

Yay For Saturday!!

Oh, how I love Saturdays! :)

Courage

I taught a lesson today in Young Women's about Courage...a subject I have had many lessons on. I was thinking about past experiences and wondered how I was able to get through them and then I remembered I didn't; it was the Lord who brought me through and taught me to have courage in the face of adversity. We talked in my lesson about the Cowardly Lion and how he had courage all along, he just needed to be told that he did; he needed to believe in himself. I am so grateful for my Savior, Jesus Christ who has given me the ultimate example of courage.

"Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest." Joshua 1:9

How Great Thou Art

As I sat in church today, I felt a wonderful and amazing spirit. I sat and pondered the wonders of our God and the gifts He has given us. The only words that I have to describe what I felt are borrowed from the Hymn, "How Great Thou Art". I have no better words to express what I feel.

O Lord my God! When I in awesome wonder

Consider all the worlds Thy hands have made.

I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder,

Thy power through-out the universe displayed.

When through the woods and forest glades

I wander And hear the birds sing sweetly in the trees;

When I look down from lofty mountain grandeur

And hear the brook and feel the gentle breeze

In the words of Alma:
"all things denote there is a God; yea, even the earth, and all things that are upon the face of it, yea, and its motion, yea, and also all the planets which move in their regular form do witness that there is a Supreme Creator." (Alma 30:44)

And when I think that God, His Son not sparing,

Sent Him to die, I scarce can take it in;

That on the cross, my burden gladly bearing,

He bled and died to take away my sin:
When Christ shall come with shout of

acclamation And take me home,

what joy shall fill my heart!

Then I shall bow in humble adoration,

And there proclaim, my God. How great Thou art!

"I say unto you, if ye have come to a knowledge of the goodness of God, and his matchless power, and his wisdom, and his patience, and his long-suffering towards the children of men; and also, the atonement which has been prepared from the foundation of the world, that thereby salvation might come to him that should put his trust in the Lord, and should be diligent in keeping his commandments, and continue in the faith even unto the end of his life..."

(Mosiah 4:6)

I am so very grateful to a loving and kind Heavenly Father who has given me the opportunity to obtain eternal life through my Savior, Jesus Christ. I stand in awe at the wonder and beauty of our Heavenly Father's plan. When my grandma Eleanor passed away 5 years ago, we found lots of inspirational quotes and scriptures written on scraps of paper in her purse. I have 2 and they truly are treasures to me. One says: "I believe that I am always divinely guided. I believe I will always be led to take the right turn in the road. I believe that God will always make a way when there is no way."

How grateful I am for my Heavenly Father and His Son, Jesus Christ and for the love and guidance They give us every day.

"Believe in God; believe that he is, and that he created all things, both in heaven and in earth; believe that he has all wisdom, and all power, both in heaven and in earth; believe that man doth not comprehend all the things which the Lord can comprehend." (Mosiah 4:9)