Tea

So not this weekend but last weekend I went to a tea with Kathleen. The Theme was hats so I pulled out my vintage 1930's hat which I got when I was 16. Dressed the era and went to this church and went to a tea. Kathleen dressed 1800's and wore a hat she made. It was a ton of fun there was tarts and crumpits and choclate covered creme puffs and we had fancy china its was so cool. While we ate we were presented art all done by local artist. Coolest part about the tea is all proceeds go to the seventh day advantage quilting club and they make quilt that are sent to third world countrys. Its kinda like our humanitarian aid program in the lds church.

*sorry no pic yet still waiting for the e-mail but wanted to share. When I do get pic I will post them Of me and Kathleen in our getup and of my favorite local art which is horses and deer hand painted on feathers

The Pain of Repentance

“We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.”
-Kenji Mijazawa

What is the hardest part of repentance? I think it’s the pain. See when we sin we become numb to guilt and immune to the lines of right and wrong. So as we start to repent we in essence slowly melt back into the pain. As we melt the pain seems to be ten times worse because we are feeling the guilt for the first time. See if guilt slowly builds you are eased into the pain, but if it hits you all at once it’s like jumping into an icy lake. The smack of the water is the initial feeling and the stabbing pain all over you body is the throbbing after effect. I know I make repentance sound hard that is because it is and it needs to be so we know the severity of our sins. What we need to remember is “Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.” (That is a profound and wise statement Lance Armstrong once made.)

Life is short and we have to ask ourselves before we give up why it is we held on for so long in the first place. The answer to this question is the answer to the ultimate question you should ask before doing anything….is it worth it? Is sacrificing your time and giving your life to God worth eternal salvation? Is a little fun worth sacrificing your salvation? This life is a test, and the truth is pain is part of life. To reject that is to reject life itself, and to reject life is to reject God. Pain is regretful but suffering is optional, we can take it and turn our healed pain into wisdom or we can linger in it never allowing it to heal.

Repentance brings pain but that is how we learn and it’s the only true way to find your way back to the ultimate goal…lets not call it a goal lets call it a gift. So to have the ultimate gift you have earn it and sometime that is through pain.

Five Things..........

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Five things I was doing 10 years ago:
1. I was on my seventh soccer team The Crazy Legs
2. I was dating Jared Crane and Jared Smith was my Best Friend (them having the same name made things much easier)
3. I went to my first church Dance
4. I went to my first highschool party
5. My best church friend Missy Smith moved to New Hampshire
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Five things to do on my list today:
1. Laundry
2. Dishes
3. Budget
4. Watch Confrence
5. Read Scripture/ morning and evening prayer
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Five snacks I enjoy:
1. Ruffles chips with onion dip
2. Peanut butter M & M
3. BBQ Chicken Wings With Ranch
4. Popcorn
5. Sun Flower Seeds
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Five things I would do if I were a millionaire:
1. Pay off my debt
2. Go to a third world country and due vulonteer work, Most likely start a non profit orginazation to contue help long in to the future.
3. Donate some to the welfare system in the church
4. Buy my friends gifts they would appriciate and would mean something to them not matter the cost high or low. (example a back and white pic booth for camille and a supply of film and developer)
5. I would also shop I love to shop.
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Five Jobs I've had:
1. Nanny
2. Title Clerk
3. Retail Manger
4. Desk Clerk/ House Keeper
5. HIM Medical Clerk
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Tag: Camille your it!

Where is my heart?

3 Nephi 13: 19-21
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and thieves break through and steal;
But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break though nor steal.
For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

Where is my heart?
The first thing that came to my mind when I asked my self this question is what gives me peace. The first things that came to me were the sound of the ocean or quite view of a mountain range and then I hit the one true thing that gives me peace; the temple. My favorite temple is the temple depicted in the picture above the Logan temple. I like this temple for a number reasons most of which are to sacred to share, but one of the reason I can share is that it’s not white. The all the lord’s temples save this one is white, symbolizing it purity.
My favorite definition of pure is Untainted with evil, Innocent. I can guarantee there is not one person on this earth aside from Christ who is untainted with evil and innocent, all of us no matter how hard we try have sinned and given into the enticing of Satan some more than other but the point being none of us are truly pure. The only way to become pure is trough the atonement of Christ, through repentance now not one of us will only need to repent once as it is we are human we error and will have to continually re-purify ourselves if you will.
So if we all are unperfected then how do we define what makes a person pure. I think the best way is to look to there hearts. Where does the heart lie, people with good heart tend to be defined as being loving, giving, acting with good intent. Now can you be all those things and make bad choice, yes you can. A man is often judge by his actions not his heart. In the scriptures it say in Samuel 16:7….Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature…..for the Lord seeth not as a man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the lord looketh on the heart.
Now this scripture refers to a mans outward appearance not his action but the only one who can judge a man is Christ we are to look to there heart and love them for there hearts not judge them for there actions. If we can do this our heart will be better for it. So back to my original question where is my heart, I don’t think it’s exactly where its supposed to be but I think to be in that perfect place will only come through Christ and though its not quite there yet I’m headed in the right direction.

Seven Wonders of the World

In an e-mail I recently got with a video of a teacher asking her class what they thought the Seven Wonders of the World were. Most the student listed things such as: the Pryminds, The Empire State Building, The Great Wall of China, one girl however listed things such as: to see and to hear. The message of the video was that we take the small miracles in life for granite.

It made me think of what the seven wonders of the world are to me.

To Smile
To Learn
To Laugh
To Hug
To Imagine
To Hope
To Love

What are the Seven Wonders of the World to you?

Quirks

The Rules:Link the Person who Tagged you.
Mention rules on your blog:
Tell about 6 quirks of yours
Tag 6 fellow bloggers to do the same
-Leave a comment to let them know.

Six Quirks of mine:

1) I like to argue even if I agee with a persons opinion, Its something about seeing things from all angles, I think it due to the fact I think there is good and bad in every person, choice/opinion, and situation.

2) When Im really tired I get the giggles like a little girl and cant stop.

3) I change my hair the most when I feel like I need a change or when Im at a cross road.

4) Im Flakey not in a bad way, in a I need to try and do new things all the time to keep my attention. Not in a ADHD way either just in a Pochantas go where the wind takes you kind of way.

5) I ask question insevly, I like to learn and the best way to learn is by asking question. I like to call it being inquisitive.

6) Im overly blunt, I tell it like it is. This of course is from my perspective because there are three sides to everything: my side, your side, and what really happened. Pespective is unique to each indivdual.

* I Tag Camille/Meal/Mena because, well.. shes my only friend on this blog thing besides Camilla who sent it to me. Thanks by the way It was fun. I have alot of quirks it was hard to pick just 6. Luv both your guts!