grateful

This summer has been eventful. Not so much with big events, but with events that have had me thinking and evaluating my feelings for family and the gospel. We have friends and family who have lost loved ones, had children chose ways other than what they wish, had loved ones turn away from the family and the gospel. It seems to me my thoughts have been mostly family centered for most the summer. I am so grateful to have been raised in the family I was, with wonderful parents and patient sibblings who showed me love, even when I was selfish and undeserving. I am likewise blest with a great husband who also came from a wonderful family. Who knows where I would be without the influence of love and gospel teachings. Family is my greatest joy and I thank the Lord daily for the way I have be so greatly blest!

Reunion

I have just enjoyed a very rewarding weekend! To start the reunion off we did a temple session. There are few things that comfort my heart more than to look around and see several of my sibblings and children there in the temple with me! Then the time at the cabin. So rewarding to have no schedual and just enjoy every minute of visiting and playing... watching the children play and interact together! The lake was wonderful even if we had watched rain on and off and wondered if we would make it there. The cabin is so wonderful! Thanks mom and dad... and everyone who participated! I love my family!

Wet

Wow, the rain just seems to keep on coming. On the farm ee have hay turning blue, yet the ground is so wet we got stuck when we tryed to cut. I have yet to get the sprinklers out, with it raining on and off everyday there is no reason! As a family we are blest and healthy. Work is going well. The ward is awesome. Yet I feel this down feeling... I think I just need some sunshine!

Blessings everywhere

Thanks you all for your simpathy and prayers! I have amazing family and friends! I also have so many things to be thankful for... so I have been trying to focus enough on my blessings that I don't let the hard things be overwhelming! I have noticed that I don't even have to look very hard, everywhere I look I see that the Lord is blessing me and His hand in my life is so obvious!

life happens

How do we as parents, give love and support, knowing our children have agency to make their own choices, but feel the wrong choice is being made! At times I think I can feel a small piece of how our Heavenly Father feels as he watches us make our way through the road of life. Sometime there are speed bumps, other times we make total detours ... but along the way our navigator is there hoping we will turn to Him, and hoping we will listen to His counsel. When our children make turns, we sometimes think we know what is best for them, and that the turn they are making is wrong , but because of agency we stand by, voicing our concern and encouragement and hope they will know our concern is based on our love, and our love will always be there no matter what the out come of their choices.