Be the Person

"Be the person you wish you had in your life 

when you were younger."

How to Make our Troubles Disappear

"I have now lived long enough to know that, whatever our situation, our troubles melt and disappear like frost in the morning sun when we dwell upon our blessings rather than our disappointments. No matter how pessimistic one's view may become of the times and the seasons, we can always fall back on special friendship, on faithful, personal love, and on simple, true dealings in our own personal lives." 

~James E. Faust~

Today...

Today will never come again. Be a blessing. Be a friend. Encourage someone. Take Time To Care. Let your words heal, and not wound.

Available for purchase HERE in my Etsy shop (many sizes available)

Lean & Forgive

Lean on each other’s strengths. Forgive each other’s weaknesses.

Generous Thoughts

"Never suppress a generous thought." 

Camilla Eyring Kimball

Charming Gardeners

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

~MARCEL PROUST~

Everyone Has Gone Through Something

When you look at a person, any person, remember that everyone has a story, everyone has gone through something that has changed them.

Family Isn't Always About Blood

Family isn’t always blood. It’s the people in your life who want you in theirs; the ones who accept you for who you are. The ones who would do anything to see you smile & who love you no matter what.

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Friends are like Stars - Free 8x10 Printable

Good friends are like stars. 

You don’t always see them, 

but you know that they are always there.

Free 8x 10 printable. Click HERE

The Candle in Darkness

Don’t feel bad if people only remember you when they need you... Feel privileged that you are like a candle that comes to their mind when there is darkness.

Do Something Appropriate

"When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate —and do it." 

— Edgar Watson Howe

Charming Gardeners

"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."

~MARCEL PROUST~

Sand & Stone

"When someone hurts us we should write it down in sand where winds of forgiveness can erase it away. But when someone does something good for us, we must engrave it in stone where no wind can ever erase it."

~ Unknown

A Real Friend

"A real friend never gets in your way--unless you happen to be on the way down." 

~Dr. Wayne Dyer

Friendship

"Friendship isn't about whom you have known the longest...

It's about who came, and never left your side."

~Anon.

Feeling Safe

"Oh, the comfort-the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person. Having neither to weigh thoughts, Nor measure words--but pouring them All right out--just as they are--Chaff and grain together--Certain that a faithful hand will Take and sift them--Keep what is worth keeping--And with the breath of kindness Blow the rest away."

-Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

I hope you all have someone like that in your life - and can be that for someone else. xx

How Do You Know If Someone Is Right For You?

Ezra Taft Benson:

"One good yardstick as to whether a person might be the right one for you is this: in her presence, do you think your noblest thoughts, do you aspire to your finest deeds, do you wish you were better than you are?"

(To the Single Adult Brethren of the Church," Ensign, May 1988, 53)

This is good counsel that applies not only to dating, but friendships and associations too. Are you someone who makes others feel that way?

Search & Rescue

Brigham Young explained this principle in conjunction with the celebration of a day of thanksgiving on 1 January 1852. He taught the saints this:

“[Y]ou cannot be filled with the Holy Spirit, and be preparing for celestial glory, while the meanest menial under your charge or control, is in want of the smallest thing which God has given you power to supply . . .”
(Brigham Young, “Proclamation: For a Day of Praise and Thanksgiving for the Territory of Utah,” Ensign, Nov. 1971, 41)

Recently I was reading about the Martin & Willie handcart company. I was moved by the response of Brigham Young when he was brought news of their plight by Brother Richards. He “reported that there were hundreds of men, women, and children scattered over the long trail... They were in desperate trouble. Winter had come early. Snow-laden winds were howling across the highlands... Our people were hungry; their carts and their wagons were breaking down; their oxen dying. The people themselves were dying. All of them would perish unless they were rescued.”

The next morning Brigham Young stood in the tabernacle at the start of conference and said: “ ‘I will now give this people the subject and the text for the Elders who may speak... It is this... Many of our brethren and sisters are on the plains with handcarts, and probably many are now seven hundred miles from this place, and they must be brought here, we must send assistance to them. The text will be, “to get them here.”

“ ‘That is my religion; that is the dictation of the Holy Ghost that I possess. It is to save the people...

“ ‘I shall call upon the Bishops this day. I shall not wait until tomorrow, nor until the next day, for 60 good mule teams and 12 or 15 wagons. I do not want to send oxen. I want good horses and mules. They are in this Territory, and we must have them. Also 12 tons of flour and 40 good teamsters, besides those that drive the teams...

“ ‘I will tell you all that your faith, religion, and profession of religion, will never save one soul of you in the Celestial Kingdom of our God, unless you carry out just such principles as I am now teaching you. Go and bring in those people now on the plains’."

(in LeRoy R. Hafen and Ann W. Hafen, Handcarts to Zion [1960], 120–21).

Teams were rallied immediately, and lives were saved.

The phrase which has stayed in my mind is: “Go and bring in those people now on the plains”.

There are many people who are on the plains spiritually, but also emotionally, socially, physically and temporally. There are people within in our own families, and amongst our friends who are desperate to be brought in from the plains, and they lack the resources to be able to make it alone. They need our love and sensitivity, and sometimes our practical assistance. There are many organizations under the banner of “Search & Rescue”, what a wonderful title, one that is at the heart of the gospel.

There is One who gave us the perfect example to follow. He is able rescue us daily from pride, for He offers humility; hopelessness, for He instils hope; anger, for He fills us with His love. He says:

“Behold I have given unto you my gospel, and this is the gospel which I have given unto you—that I came into the world to do the will of my Father, because my Father sent me.”
“... that I might draw all men unto me,...”
(3 Nephi 27:13 – 14)

I hope that we can follow our Saviour by searching for those who are "in want of the smallest thing which God has given you power to supply", that we too will be able to say: "that I came into the world to do the will of my Father, because my Father sent me,... that I might draw all men unto [him],...".

What People Remember

"The [people whose] lives you touch may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel."

(David B. Haight, Ensign, Nov. 1976)

Family Friendship

"If our children feel friendship within the family, with each other, and with parents, they will not be desperate for acceptance outside the family. I think no finer compliment can be paid to parents than to have children say that their parents are among their best friends."

—Marlin K. Jensen Ensign, May 1999