{ Me Thinks }

I have a cold today. I've been sneezing my guts out one minute I'm cold the next I'm sweating buckets cause its so hot, so so hot, my house is a sauna and my throat is killing me, and my kids are feeling it too! Fun day! ha ha you know the kind of day where you would crawl back into bed if the kids didn't need you, the kind of day where nobody is listening to you, the kind of day where it feels like all anybody is doing is fighting with each other.

The kind of day every mother has sometimes ! Thats today.

BUT

That's not what I came on here to write about.

I've been thinking so much lately about some friends and families we know of who are facing terminal illness right now and facing the moments where the time left in this earthly journey is limited.

D and I talked a lot about it the last couple of nights and wondered about the trials people have to go through and the strength and courage they give to others even in their darkest family times of facing being separated in this life.

Where the memories they are making now are to last forever.

It makes me so thankful for the blessings we have, for the trials we have, and makes me so aware of the little things that don't matter so much and how we need to make the most of every second we have in this life and make them count.

A lot of mornings lately on my jog I see some members of a highly loved and respected family in our community heading to the hospital early in the morning. It brings tears to my eyes thinking of it, and the families we know of who have little children and face leaving them behind to grow up without their father/mother.

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I came across this quote from Elder Orson F. Whitney,

"No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all the we endure, especially when we endure patiently, builds up our character, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God...and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven."

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Isn't that great it makes me cry because when you think about it the very most important things we have here on this earth is our family, the gospel and knowledge we acquire because of the things we go through and have to learn that bring us closer together as families and to what we want to be now and forever.

Think about the things we all have gone through or are going through when we learn and grow from it, learn to embrace it and share with others what we've learned and are continuing to learn we do become more patient, more understanding of others, more charitable and more worthy. Its all in what we do with the trials we have, we all have them.

We are all blessed in ways we can't even count.

Sometimes the pain takes over and the sadness comes and that's what we are here for to help, listen and to show we care, to pray and serve others. To learn.

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MAKE SOMEONE'S DAY

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest accomplishment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.