More Holiness Give Me: No one took the bait!

Friday, September 23, 2011

No one took the bait!

I tired to tease you a little bit yesterday with my comment about not judging each other because they might be driving with a fish bowl in their car. NOT one of you asked me what the heck I was talking about! I was very disappointed. So I guess I will have to tell you anyway because it is too good to waste in my own little head.

I have had the privilege of knowing and befriending one of the most miraculous women and teachers in the whole world. I have so much love for her.

She is my sons 7th grade teacher but before she was that she was my friend and ward member. (Which means she goes to church at the same time as our family.)

She married a equally wonderful man and she has been raising his 6 children plus her daughter. She is FABULOUS.

She teaches the kids super fun things. They do plays, they make mid evil models and dress up to display them, they READ the OUTSIDER!!!! (Love that book) ....They MEMORIZE a 1000 worthwhile quotes! She is funny, she is cute, she is kind. I love her.

She was a teacher in our church once. She told a story about not judging because you never know! The people might be driving the car with a fish in a bowl.

I could be wrong but the way I remember the story is....She was driving somewhere with a fish in a bowl. And people were mad at her and annoyed at her slow crappy driving. But she was like "I can't help it. I have a fish in a bowl!"

And she learned a little lesson about judging. And I love it.

Also...Make sure to read this. It's long but LIFE CHANGING!!!!!! When I was told to read it I didn't because there is just too much to read on the Internet. But really read it.

2 comments:

Sister Savanah Jo Ward said...: Hey! I didn't "take the bait" because I got it! I just drove to Pocatello and back again with a fish in my lap because my dear son decided not to keep it at his apartment! (It now resides in my room, by the way...); September 23, 2011 at 11:07 PM
Anonymous said...: Michelle said...I didn't bite because I got it :) Mine wasn't a fish, it was having a very sick child in the car one time and not wanting to hit all the bumps in the road. So now I always wonder if they have a sick or elderly person in the car, or a crock ...pot full of soup in the front seat (I've done that, too hee hee) Judging is, in a nutshell, a sick, sad waste of time and energy and brings negativity, sadness and pain into the world. I LOVED that post on signs~ just beautiful. And I think that person of whom you spoke in your post is amazing, too~ anybody would be blessed to have her as a teacher!

Missy said...I read it and I agree. I always tell my kids, "you don't know what's happening in their lives. They might need it more then you." You just never know!; November 14, 2011 at 7:43 AM

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-

More Holiness Give Me

Friday, September 23, 2011

No one took the bait!

2 comments:

Hello, my old friend.

Where are you visiting from?