weekend

Saturday today. Sun in the sky. Good to have folks around.

Just today, what is of worth?

The question might be, whether the events of the day show something new, or confirm an outside hand in a life, or whether the events are just the predictable outcome of prior days? Should I look within or look outside myself today as I ponder the days events?
Pain in moving one of my feet today and to much thought about a tired frame have made the day seem a challenge but then events confirm more than an internal focus for the day what is of worth.
Two young men brought a thought to our home tonight and then suggested something of more value than an internal look at self. They proposed that how we talk to each other may be of more value than how we feel about our self? They proposed that if "I believe" that it can help others and I ought to say so. So then I"do believe"so ok.
Wondering if that is then what today was for but then someone calls asks if I like fruit? What is really being asked is "are you ok"? I am thinking of you? I want to bring you something? Maybe what they are saying to me is "they believe". Glad to be thought of.
Maybe we believe because we care or then we care because we believe.............

wish I had the picture but it is upstairs

To bad I can't post the picture of "her" standing by the river in Idaho Falls 43 years ago. I took the picture and it was indeed a great picture.

Didn't get to wear a hat either

Hard to figure what to say about this new year just yet.................

Friday PM, story of a special box

I should have posted a picture before of the very nice box that Zach made for me for Christmas. The story of this Christmas Box is also special. He had noticed my black shoe boxes that I had on my shelf and that I was using for finished genealogy names and thought up this idea for a box. He measured it out, planned it out, and started on his plan. That took him along with me to the store to buy the lumber. I of course was never told who the planned project was for or what it was and thought it very well could be for Mike. Since I wasn't told it probably was a "tip off". Later we went together while he looked for stain for the box. He spent many hours on several trips to a family friend's house, Arlo, using the power equipment and getting help. Likewise a lot of time was spent here in the garage working on "the project". The four drawers will handle a lot of names and it is something that will be a great way to keep those names. What a really nice Christmas present.

Friday

The weather has been cold. We even had some cloudy days. On the other hand things are pretty nice out.

Thursday

The issue is not what we have done but what we
have become. What we have become is more
than our actions. It is also the result of our

attitudes, our motives, and our desires -Neal Maxwell

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It has been several weeks since I had a chance to tell my own "life's story" to a group of friends in a church meeting. The goal of that occasion was to get to know each other. One of the nice things about getting to know people at church is that they often are just friends. They could, but don't necessarily do, relate to you in terms of "what you can do for them" so it could be consider somewhat "safe ground". Even so I have noticed that "men" do not take such opportunities to just be themselves and really associate with each other openly very well. Going to a game together, for example, is not the same as telling someone "who you really are". I suppose if I were to try to offer some real reasons for a life that includes a church would in part get down to just being with some "good people" regularly. Well anyway this day a few weeks ago it was my turn again and I shared some thoughts about myself. I found that more so than in years past I was willing to share some of the things that have not, at the time, seemed like they went all that well or that were "good things?". Sharing some failures, if they indeed were failures and that is probably the point here, is also more interesting that sharing successes.

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"The issue is not what we have done but what we have become".

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Who we are eventually shows up as our attitudes, motives and desires define us. I suppose whether we like it or not we are refined and polished. "Come what may, and love it". I think we should enjoy recalling our challenges, course they keep coming. Another good piece of wisdom:

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"Careful out there"

Working through Change

Brother Wirthlin's words of "Come what may, and love it" came to my attention, again, in an email from a friend in our ward. She mentioned the quote as a comfort in a time of some change. Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin is best known as an Apostle of the The Church of Jesus Chirst of LDS. I remember him also from earlier days when he ran a meat distribution business in Salt Lake. One time many years ago I made a call on his company and sold them a few items. I have always been impressed with the companies reputation in those days. He was indeed a good man.


http://vodpod.com/watch/1732551-come-what-may-love-it

how we see it, I guess was "Brown"

So "How Now, Brown Cow" seems like a pretty deep thought for today, January 2nd 2010. Then again a blog can be pretty routine and just reflect the same old stuff. Guess that is why I like the family blogs we watch.

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I remember a couple of years ago I found a blog of a guy somewhere around the Great Lakes and I really liked the pictures he came up with day after day. I went on and looked at the blog several times a week for a few years and was often surprised at what he posted. Then all of a sudden he stopped posting? It just ended and in fact the whole site went away. Wish it hadn't. Not sure I can remember what all the great pictures were about.

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Today I checked out some of the "other blogs" that I have looked in on occasionally........The first was an old neighbor's home blog from up North. The blog now has just ended and it is now a business blog. Not at all as interesting. Guess that is par for the course. Then I looked in on the "Pioneer Woman's" "slick" blog about being a cow girl in the mid west sort of Martha Stewart's cowboy clone? Pretty slick blog. Good pictures of some horses on it today. Well done. Did I mention "Slick", cause I meant it. Even so, it pretty much is the same as it has been. and is still interesting. Next I went to a "Mission Presidents" blog in another country. Always feel guilty "peaking in" on this probably private blog, since it was passed on to us, but it is interesting to see what a lot of very nice people seem to be doing with their lives. Love the mixed culture this blog reflects.

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Good thoughts for the year ahead.......

*I believe in Christianity as I believe that the "Sun
Has risen", not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. C.S Lewis

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The real voyage of discovery consists
not in seeking new lands but in seeing with new eyes.- Proust