I love this song. I love his voice. I love that he is a good boy. I love that he is country. I love the message of this song. So enjoy!
Today has been a great day, nothing amazing out of the ordinary, but then again every day is a blessing isn't it? Today was different then yesterday though. Yesterday I just felt blah all day long. I had no motivation to get things done. It was just one of those days. However, today I turned it around and my daughter and I had a good time! We went to a couple stores, read books together, played catch, and colored. My husband also came home to a fantastic new meal! (Thanks Heath for the idea!) Raspberry chipotle chicken salad with black beans, corn, rice, cheese, and homemade salsa on top (sooo yummy and fresh!) and then homemade lemon cream cheese bars for dessert. There were smiling faces all around the dinner table tonight :) Our awesome neighbor even came and shared the joy with us. I love her. Then later this evening as my husband was giving our daughter a bath I read my aunts blog, who is serving a mission with her husband in the Cape Verde islands. What an inspiration she is! She has a true gift of writing and I felt the Spirit so strong as I was reading her blog. This is the second mission she and her husband are serving and I'm so grateful for their wonderful examples. So many things she said has touched my heart tonight but something in particular really made me think. Quoting my aunt, she said, "It is too easy to forget our blessings as we roam on earth trying to keep up with them." I had to think about that for a minute but I love her point of view. I'm sure it can be taken a few different ways but what it means to me is we are swimming in blessings! The Lord has been so merciful to us and we truly have blessings beyond measure. So much that we almost "forget" them or take them for granted and maybe don't recognize them as blessings. I love that quote from her. Time to look at all our blessings instead of maybe what we don't have. Because when we look at what we do have, we'll realize we already have it all.
Just this past Sunday was fast and testimony meeting for our ward. The Spirit in sacrament meeting was incredible. My husband and I both commented on it. We absolutely love our ward. I hope everyone can say that. We've both been in awe so many times at the willingness to serve and help out. I was humbled in so many ways with all the testimonies that were given this past Sunday. One in particular about a brother who has been looking for a job for a year and a half now and getting teary as he told how it hasn't been easy to watch his wife work two jobs for the family. He spoke of their trials and their faith and how after a long week of dealing with lice in their home his wife turns to him and says she's happy. She's content. The faith coming from this man and his family was almost tangible. Others bore solid testimony of the basic truths of the gospel in such a humble and powerful way. There are so many amazing people to look up to and learn from. I would stay here forever just to be in this ward. But then again that's the beautiful thing about the gospel- It's full of wonderful people everywhere you go! I'm just so grateful to be where I am right now. I know it's where we need to be and the Lord is giving me so many opportunities to grow and learn and become better.
Now, my husband is studying and I am about to go to bed so I can get up and exercise. The forecast for tomorrow is rain so perhaps tomorrow will be a movie day with my daughter :) Life is good!
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