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Friday, November 5, 2010

Secret to happiness...found here!

A family in our community lost their baby girl. This young mom is trying her best to sort out her new life without her daughter. She decided to do a big service project. Check here to see what it is all about!

http://patrickandashley.blogspot.com/2010/10/pay-it-forward.html

So I am so excited about next week because a few of my GNO friends and I have decided to get together and tie fleece blankets to donate to her cause. I had so much fun picking out fleece, albeit the store I went to had slim pickings. And then I went to my friend's house and saw the cute fleece she had picked and I just got super excited.

It feels dang good to do things for other people.

I know the secret to happiness. It is two fold. Be grateful, forget yourself and give. Is that three fold? I don't know but those are the keys to happiness.

Here is the fleece I picked. I don't know why, I know it is a little crazy looking, but I liked it (the back will be a gray to match some of the Peace symbols). I LOVED the warm tones to it. I am really into brown (see m&m post). Plus I though it might be good for a dad. So many things are made girlish, I just like this one.

And even if the Peace symbol is trendy and hippieish, peace is still welcome and a good thing to be had.

1 comment:

Susan said...: Christina Gutke said... I can't wait! I am getting my fleece after work today!!

Susan Chamberlain Nielsen said... Hope you had a good day today!

Michelle Vivino said... commented on the blot itself~ let me know what I can do!

Nancy Chamberlain said... Great project! Like the fleece you picked!

Michelle Vivino said... Okay I went and read the blog post on their site. I can't cry right now because I am going to the store with my kids~ but when I get back I will delve into Presley's story (and bawl my eyes out, I'm sure :o( ) Anyway, I would love to help~ I'm going to...See More

Mary McDowell said.. the best things are things done for others-p.s. I like your choice also<3

Susan Chamberlain Nielsen said... Michelle- You are so sweet. Call me for sure. This is not a family I know. I just came across their story and then realized she is a student at BYU-i and is just a girl like I once was. Warning: Sometimes I wish I didn't read her story because it has broken my heart so.

Mary! Yay! If you like it then I know it is a good choice. You were always so cool.

Mary McDowell said... awwwwwwwwwwwww shucks.. it's retro and fun and earth tones are great!

Amy Kalakay Ward said... Still makes me cry every time I visit that blog!; April 17, 2016 at 3:24 PM

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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