First reunion of the summer

We feel very grateful to be a part of the Heber C. Kimball family and always have a great time at This is the Place Heritage park for the reunion.  It is a great park and I highly recommend it.  They had a mountain man rendezvous happening that day.  The boys loved learning about what it takes to be a trapper or how the Indians lived. 

 Even for kids from the country we had to stop at the petting zoo.

 This is in the kitchen of the HCK home.  I wish I had the brick oven but for the rest I'm grateful for modern convenience of gas and electric.  Sim also got a shave.  It was close enough that it is guaranteed to last him for 5 years.  Not bad for 2 bits.

Grateful:
482 Pioneer heritage and sacrifice but especially that they endured cheerfully and created beauty.  It wasn't just about survival but creating a better life.
483 Family time with good reminders of the stories that make us who we are and help us understand the potential of who we can become.  Stories about our own ancestors tell of strength and character giving us the courage to move forward and face the difficult.
484 Both of my parents were able to go with us.  It is so good to spend time with our living ancestors too!
485 Family history is contagious.  I love learning about my ancestors.  I sure wish my grandmothers had written more of their own stories.  They were amazing women and I want to learn from them.

So grateful for the fathers in my life!

Dads are so great.  I'm glad I have 2 and am married to a great Dad of my children. I see so many all around.  Keep up the good work!

Grateful
474 good fathers continue to be
475 reminders about good fathers
476 pageant season
477 engineering week for Dane
478 EFY counselor for Em in Minnesota
479 We are hiring an accountant
480 sweet friends who brought me dinner last night
481 flying kites with my kids and a really good kite

Waiting

Waiting is work.  Waiting is hard.  Waiting can teach us much.  We are still dog training.  Our puppy is 4 months old. She is smart and sometimes slow.  I'm waiting for puppy-hood to get over yet hoping that we are getting some good training in.

When owning a dog, taking them for a walk is important.  It is a bonding time and a time to establish me as the leader.  I'm still watching videos because I don't seem to get this figured out quite right.  According to one video we should wait until the dog is calm and submissive before going on the walk.  The waiting can take a while.  When it takes a while it is okay if the walk isn't very long because learning to wait is work for the dog too.  So apparently I'm not the only one that thinks it is hard to wait.

For just 2 days I'm watching an extra dog.  It is teaching me more waiting.  It has been great for Daisy.  She is completely worn out trying to keep up with a border collie.

We are also in the middle of pageant practices.  Our evenings are full of "hurry up and wait".

Waiting can also be a gift as explained in this post and also part two.

Sometimes waiting is enduring, hoping for loved ones, hoping to be reunited with loved ones, enduring the things we cannot change but must simply go through.




Another word for waiting is abiding. I want my Savior to abide with me.  I want his company in my waiting and may my waiting be used to teach, remind, bless, and nurture hope that when I wait, trusting in the Lord, that waiting itself is blessing me.  It is not always about arriving but the journey.

I'm practicing the wait as I plant tiny seeds in my garden, find frozen plants and plant again.  I wait through the heat of the day for the refreshing cool of the night.  I wait for the time my family will be all together again. I wait and hope and pray and act. We wait together.  We pray together.  We become refined in the waiting and feel our Savior's love.

Heaven's eyes

Pleasing God is my goal.  I'm being reminded again and again that an eternal perspective, a desire to please God, to lose myself in serving others, to stop comparing and start simply loving would be a really good idea. When a blogger friend shared this video somehow, I realized, I had missed out on a really good song with a message I needed.  There really is no way for me to measure my worth or anyone else's worth.  It's not my job to measure.  I simply need to put God first when making decisions and I need to see others they way he does. My thread in this great tapestry is enough with God's help.  I need to love more and join the dance!  It will all be fine.  It all works out.  We are meant to be joyful in the journey.  SMILE!

THROUGH HEAVENS EYES LYRICS

by PRINCE OF EGYPT SOUNDTRACK

 Performed by Brian Stokes Mitchell

Jethro

A single thread in a tapestry

Though its color brightly shine

Can never see its purpose

In the pattern of the grand design

And the stone that sits on the very top

Of the mountain's mighty face

Does it think it's more important

Than the stones that form the base?

So how can you see what your life is worth

Or where your value lies?

You can never see through the eyes of man

You must look at your life

Look at your life through heaven's eyes

Lai-la-lai...

A lake of gold in the desert sand

Is less than a cool fresh spring

And to one lost sheep, a shepherd boy

Is greater than the richest king

If a man lose ev'rything he owns

Has he truly lost his worth?

Or is it the beginning

Of a new and brighter birth?

So how do you measure the worth of a man

In wealth or strength or size?

In how much he gained or how much he gave?

The answer will come

The answer will come to him who tries

To look at his life through heaven's eyes

And that's why we share all we have with you

Though there's little to be found

When all you've got is nothing

There's a lot to go around

No life can escape being blown about

By the winds of change and chance

And though you never know all the steps

You must learn to join the dance

You must learn to join the dance

Lai-la-lai...

So how do you judge what a man is worth

By what he builds or buys?

You can never see with your eyes on earth

Look through heaven's eyes

Look at your life

Look at your life

Look at your life through heaven's eyes