"Just" for Trudy

The little girl on the right is sure cute. Course the one getting a drink makes me remember that day.

In Proverbs 22:1 it tells us that "A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favor rather than silver and gold.

Our parents gave us a good name which we will always share. "There" name goes with us. We honor them by remembering and sharing and caring.

For your birthday I wish for you that yours and Gary's name is always honored, and remembered and shared.

Love Brent

Giving Thanks this Thanksgiving

It's Thanksgiving and it is a good day to think back and ponder all the things that one should be thankful for. There are many more than I have found in this group of pictures but looking through a long file of pictures is a good way to focus on things to be thankful for.

The guy up in the top left hand corner is me back in the late 1940's I think. I posted it because I am thankful to have had a nice head of hair for some of my life. The guy in the opposite corner is again me back in the early 90's and I am indeed thankful for many years of running.

The collage has twenty pictures. In the center is Kathy taking my picture while below you see me taking hers in the Bosque along the Rio Grande a couple of weeks ago.

A picture of Mike as a little guy watching a parade, and Zach as a very young boy, and Katie helping us on our first big move to California as a very young girl are some of my favorite things to remember and be thankful for.

This group of pictures has a picture of the Sandia's which are just to the East. If I had room for another few pictures on this the Wasatch Mountains, Mt Olympus, and Millcreek Canyon would be here and they indeed are on the list of things I am thankful for. The extra room could also have been filed with both Kathy's and my extended families.

Deeper than could be shown by pictures is my thankfulness for the hand of the Lord in our lives.

Us, this week.

Favorite pictures of the week.

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Something about trees and walking on a dirt trail and leaves all around that are just addicting. I love to walk through areas like this. These pictures offer two different views of a place and one captures the other.

walk through the bosque

Yesterday we went for a walk through the "Bosque" along the Rio Grande. I of course have been the first to post pictures and that might be a first because I only took three pictures. The little trail through the trees is a great place to walk. It was a great morning.

what is success

A good goal, it would seem, would be to obtain "success". The question of whether that is a good goal seems to be much easier than the answer to "what is success".

Success seems, or has seemed, like a ladder. It seems like it must involve taking some steps up somewhere and that those steps would be progressive towards something.

In Ether 12:27 it says, " And if men come unto me I will show unto them their weakness. I give unto men weakness that they may be humble; and my grace is sufficient for all men that humble themselves before me; for if they humble themselves before me, and have faith in me, then will I make weak things become strong unto them.

We heard this scripture last night and I thought about it in terms of how does it help us be better. It seems pretty logical that if we become better in some way that would be a success. This scripture suggests something different than the idea of a ladder leading up to some higher place. It suggests that being better is gained by being humble. Being humble is probably not like a ladder but more like a mirror recognizing that we need to improve. Humility doesn't bring up thoughts of climbing a ladder.

I suspect that weak things become strong because they become successful in getting closer to the Lord. That then must be what success really is........................

thought for the day

Muhammad Ali / Favorite Quote


Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even