Thankful Thursday!

Today I'm thankful for forgiveness...for big things and tiny things. Can you imagine if we weren't able to forgive/be forgiven!? I know it'd be terrible for me with as many times as I mess up in this life. I need to be quicker to forgive...like little kids are - sometimes if I'm offended I like to pout on it for a while...and that's pretty pointless! 

"May we pray to our Heavenly Father to help us overcome foolish pride, resentment, and pettiness. May He help us to forgive and love, so we may be friends with our Savior, others, and ourselves."

-David E. Sorenson

Thankful Thursday!

I'm thankful for Heavenly Father's tender mercies...what are those you ask? 

"...the Lord’s tender mercies are the very personal and individualized blessings, strength, protection, assurances, guidance, loving-kindnesses, consolation, support, and spiritual gifts which we receive from and because of and through the Lord Jesus Christ. Truly, the Lord suits “his mercies according to the conditions of the children of men” (D&C 46:15)." (great talk by Elder Bednar)

Maybe it's a far stretch but when the bag of pot stickers has an extra pot sticker in it and your starving husband gets to have an extra when he breaks his fast, I can't help but think Heavenly Father has a sense of humor and feel that He really does care about every little detail of our lives. I do believe the pot sticker would fall under the "individualized blessings" category because I suuuure know R was wanting that one extra but was too nice to only leave me with 4 pot stickers for dinner. 

these suckers will stink up your freezer but OH MY are they delicious.

Happy Halloween!

oh, and for this ghoulish Thankful Thursday...I'm thankful for chocolate and the ability to taste. 

Thankful Thursday!

I'm thankful for a husband who loves me through my occasional "hunger tantrums". He seriously deserves an award.

Thankful Thursday!

I think I've missed a couple of weeks now, woops! 

I'm thankful for the example that little children are to us adults. Mosiah 3:19 comes to mind, 

"For the natural man is an enemy to God, and has been from the fall of Adam, and will be, forever and ever, unless he yields to the enticings of the Holy Spirit, and putteth off the natural man and becometh a saint through the atonement of Christ the Lord, and becometh as a child, submissive, meek, humble, patient, full of love, willing to submit to all things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon him, even as a child doth submit to his father."

Groups of families take turns cleaning our church building and it was the Sims family turn a couple of weeks ago...when I meant to post this...well, R was still out of town so I went alone. Some group members come early and leave a note regarding what they've done and then there are those in the group who never show up. Well, let me just tell you that I HATE trash (it stinks.) and I hate cleaning bathrooms (especially public ones; too many unidentified fluid stains to clean up - yuck). I was ill because guess what I was about to do?! Help clean men&women bathrooms, collect trash, and then wash windows. Lucky for me, the gentleman in our group who is always there brought his little angel granddaughter who ended up being just the lesson I needed to be reminded of.  She was SO eager to help clean, even when she was face level with the urinal.  That's the kind of attitude I should have when I'm given the opportunity to clean the place where I get to go and learn about the gospel every single week. 

Kids are often the first to love and first to forgive. What a great example they are of our savior, Jesus Christ.

Thankful Thursday!

Throw Back Thursday is pretty popular these days but I'm going to TRY (forgive me if I forget a time or two....or ten) and do a Thankful Thursday to remind myself of things my life is blessed with. To kick off my thankful Thursdays..........

I am thankful that...

...I GET TO SEE MY HUSBAND TOMORROW!!!

Maybe they will typically be a little more in depth but for now, that's pretty much all I can think about.