We LOVE this story we checked out from the library. It is based on the true story of the author’s grandmother who, when she was 6 years old, moved with her mother and 7 brothers and sisters into a little shack deep in the woods of Wisconsin. (It was 1932, they were evicted from their home and their father died of cancer before he finished moving them into the shack.). We loved reading about the treasures they found in the woods and the games they invented to make their hard work fun. Also the pictures are beautiful.
thank you for teaching me by the way you lived to love reading, explore nature, and make things.
Thank you for making delicious food, so I would know how to recognize and make it myself.
Thank you for teaching me to love children and see the best in others, and to courageously do the work set before me no matter what it is.
Thank you for teaching me to recognise when the Holy Spirit is speaking to me, and for being a living example of Christ-like love in action.
Thank you for helping me to see what was at stake when I was young and foolish and considering abandoning my faith. You saved generations with one wise question. All the the good things in my life seem to flow from you.
To my mother-in-law,
thank you for raising a boy who is honest and hard-working, and who knows how to stop working and have fun with his kids.
Thank you for raising a man who values education and finds poetry in living. I needed him.
Results of combining my early morning walks with the BirdNET app. I actually know what birds I’m hearing now. 🥰🥰🐦#naturejournal #watercolorpencils #charlottemasonirl #birdwatcher
He is the Light and the life of the world, yeah, a light that is endless, that can never be darkened; yeah and also a life which is endless, that there can be no more death. ~Mosiah 16:9
Recently I saw a question ” Do you like sunrises or sunsets better?” I didn’t know.
This morning I got up early and walked two miles and I realized I prefer sunrises. Especially spring sunrises after the storms of the night are past. 🐛🍀🌎⛈️🌤️🌈
He is the light and life of the world; yea, a light that is endless, that can never be darkened; yea and also a life which is endless, that there can be no more death.
Also I love this one, which Hugh Nibley called, “the most beautiful passage in the Book of Mormon”
2 Nephi 9:41 Oh then, my beloved brethren, come into the Lord, the Holy One. Remember that his paths are righteous. Behold, the way for man is narrow, but it lieth in a straight course before him, and the Keeper of the gate is the Holy One of Israel; and he employeth no servant there.
My Mom’s favorite
John 15:5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
My sister-in-law Cegan
One of mine is Moroni 10:32-33
“Yea, come unto Christ, and be perfected in him, and deny yourselves of all ungodliness; and if ye shall deny yourselves of all ungodliness, and love God with all your might, mind and strength, then is his grace sufficient for you, that by his grace ye may be perfect in Christ; and if by the grace of God ye are perfect in Christ, ye can in nowise deny the power of God.And again, if ye by the grace of God are perfect in Christ, and deny not his power, then are ye sanctified in Christ by the grace of God, through the shedding of the blood of Christ, which is in the covenant of the Father unto the remission of your sins, that ye become holy, without spot.”
My brother John D
13Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. 14 Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. John 15:13-14
My sister Mary
D&C 19:16-19
16 For behold, I, God, have suffered these things for all, that they might not suffer if they would repent;
17 But if they would not repent they must suffer even as I;
18 Which suffering caused myself, even God, the greatest of all, to tremble because of pain, and to bleed at every pore, and to suffer both body and spirit—and would that I might not drink the bitter cup, and shrink—
19 Nevertheless, glory be to the Father, and I partook and finished my preparations unto the children of men.
Marvelous Pigs in Satin 