As you can tell I am tinkering with my template.  And I haven't posted a new blog for a while.  Life just gets too busy to do it every week.  
     I have a list of favorite books.  One of them is Jeffrey Holland's Trusting Jesus.  I was reading it again.  Not all of it.  But I came across a section I would like to quote."John Donne said once:  "We ask our daily bread, and God never says, 'You should have come yesterday'…)No, he says,)'Today if you will hear my voice, today I will hear yours'…If thous hast been benighted till now, wintered and frozen, clouded and eclipsed, damp and benumbed, smothered and stupefied, til now, God yet comes to thee, not as in the dawning of day…but as the sun at (full) noon, to banish all shadows.'  Elder Holland continues "My witness is that He will deliver all the rest of us, too, that He will deliver the entire human family, if we will but "Take of sacred things."  How easily we are distracted.  The Sabbath, prayers, etc, are all meant to help us stay focused on what matters most.  On from where help, strength and comfort will come.  To not forget He who loves us so extraordinarily unconditionally.   Just a few thoughts.  Have a great day.  
    Terri

     I pray at night that my family will find joy in life.  That we will see all that is good in the people around us and in the world around us.  Sometimes it is so difficult to do that.  So here is my joy list for the week.

1.  Climbing up Mill-B North last Saturday before the cold and once more beholding the beauty of God's handy work.  

2.  Having Sally return to school after being ill for a week.

3.  Esther announced that she had a baby in her belly button after her mother told her she had a baby in her tummy.

4.  My 89 year-old mother had a pace maker put in this week.  Waking up the morning after the surgery in the hospital, she asked the nurse how she got there and who talked her into this.   

5.  Finishing report cards.

6.  Having a break from school while Mom was in the Hospital.

7.  My husband stayed home one day with Mom so I could go back to school.

8.  My daughter came and helped Mom.

9.  Having a week free from pain.

10.  Looking at the warm colors of a fleece blanket I bought at REI.  

11.  Seeing Beck be so generous with Andrew when they were playing Legos.  That has not always been so.  Someone is growing up.  

12.  Remember Zara, my friend from Iran.  

13.  Walking from the cold into a warm house.  A pleasure I remember feeling and loving as a child.  

14.  Having a prophet of God on the earth.

15.  Going to the temple.  I go there to be renewed.  It renews my spirit.  I just go there to be.  To relish the feeling.  To be close to my former home.

16.  Talking to my son-in-laws mother.  I call her Moma Bear.  I love her!!!!!

17.  Hearing that Brent's father's rashes are easing.

18.  I have a sister-in-law who has spent the last seven weeks caring for her aging parents.   

19.  Knowing my husband is there to give me a blessing when I want to fall off the cliff emotionally.

20.  Knowing that Heavenly Father loves me, even when I want to knock a few people across the room.  He helps me get those feelings under control.

21.  And so it goes on and on.

I hope you will be blest and find the joy around you!!

Terri