COOKIE CRUMBS: Blessings

We should not underestimate or overlook the power of the Lord’s tender mercies. The simpleness, the sweetness, and the constancy of the tender mercies of the Lord will do much to fortify and protect us in the troubled times in which we do now and will yet live. When words cannot provide the solace we need or express the joy we feel, when it is simply futile to attempt to explain that which is unexplainable, when logic and reason cannot yield adequate understanding about the injustices and inequities of life, when mortal experience and evaluation are insufficient to produce a desired outcome, and when it seems that perhaps we are so totally alone, truly we are blessed by the tender mercies of the Lord and made mighty even unto the power of deliverance (see 1 Ne. 1:20).
-Elder David A. BednarOf the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles

Monday, September 15, 2008

Blessings

Busy Weeks: that go by quickly and keep me feeling fulfilled.

Falling Gas Prices: We have made it down to $3.67. Who would have ever thought gas at that price would be a blessing?

A Good Neighborhood: One evening this past summer we accidental left ShiAnne's and Lizzy's bikes at the pocket park in the middle of our neighborhood. The next morning we left town for the weekend. Four days latter when we realized what we had done we went down to the park and there they sat just where wee had left them. That is the type of people I get to go to church with, serve with and socialize with during my week. It is a good place to live.