More Holiness Give Me: Finding Christ for Christmas day 20

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Finding Christ for Christmas day 20

At church this year in the foyer as the cutest Christmas tree with names of the the neighbors who live within our ward boundaries. The idea is to grab some names and do an act of service anonymously. It is a great idea. We have done it in years past and the thought of us all out there scrambling to be good to each other thrills my heart.

So we had a few names and we had some goodies to take to the neighbors. Before we left, we started our Family Home Evening with prayer and then I spoke with the kids about Christ. I told them He spent his entire life doing good deeds and serving others. I told them that we don't want to waste too much time on the computer, playing video games or watching TV. That if we are trying to live our lives like Christ we need to be out there serving. It overwhelmed me at what a tall order that is to fill and how far off I am at being that way. I always think when the kids grow up I can't wait to sit around and quilt or scrapbook. So I guess we need to find a healthy balance. Although I think of Mother Teresa and you certainly can't go wrong spending your life in service. I can't wait to go on a service mission someday! (you know if my orphange isn't up and running by then)

The kids were hysterical and ecstatic to try to drop treats off and run before neighbors saw them(only to later remember the neighbors weren't even home that night) . It was good times. Then it was equally exciting to have someone leave treats at our house and run. I love life!

Thanks for the push, Cameron! I needed it. I am not giving up.

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Susan said...: Hi Susan! I seem to lately been only looking at your blog on my phone and it won't let me leave messages! I just wanted to tell you how much I love what you're doing for your kids in finding Christ. I'm sure you're getting tired but you have loyal fans who need you to finish!!! Your bathroom looks AMAZING!! What a...n awesome Christmas present! Hope you guys have a great Christmas. Love you tons! Megan; December 22, 2009 at 7:54 PM

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I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully, tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails.I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp.I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbors children.I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone's garden.I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and the tears of a friend on my shoulder.I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived." — Marjorie Pay Hinckley

When the real history of mankind is fully disclosed, will it feature the echoes of gunfire or the shaping sound of lullabies? The great armistices made by military men or the peacemaking of women in homes and in neighborhoods? Will what happened in cradles and kitchens prove to be more controlling than what happened in congresses? When the surf of the centuries has made the great pyramids so much sand, the everlasting family will be standing, because it is a celestial institution, formed outside telestial time. The women of God know this. --Neal A. Maxwell

I know it is long but it is life altering!

C.S. Lewis- Meanwhile the cross comes before the crown and tomorrow is a Monday morning...It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you say it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree, helping each other to one or other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities that we should conduct all our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. But it is immortals who we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendours. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of the kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have from the outset, taken each other seriously - no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption, and our charity must be a real and costly love, with deep feeling for the sins in spite of which we love the sinner - no mere tolerance, or indulgence which parodies love as flippancy parodies merriment. Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses."

"Women of God can never be like women of the world. The world has enough women who are tough; we need women who are tender. There are enough women who are course; we need women who are kind. There are enough women who are rude; we need women who are refined. We have enough women of fame and fotune; we need more women of faith. We have enough greed; we need more goodness. We have enough vanity; we need more virtue. We have enough popularity; we need more purity." Margaret D. Naduald

" Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. It's not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. -Nelson Mandela-

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Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Finding Christ for Christmas day 20

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Hello, my old friend.

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