Give Thanks!

Tis almost the season to be grateful, I decided to start a little early this year. Oh so much has happen this past year and every ounce of it I am grateful for. As I was reading one of my amazing sis-n-laws blog it made me think about everything. She was talking about mental pictures, and I loved it. What is a mental picture? To me it is something that only I saw and now cherish. We all may see the same thing but we all interpret it differently.

Just in the last month I have a handful of mental picture that make me grateful for so much.

First, Elder Gurr turning around with a great big smile before he went through security! That smile was priceless. I can’t wait to see it again, but that smile gave me several things to be grateful for…that my heavenly father Loves me, that the church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints is the true church, Missionaries who are spreading the gospel all over the world, that families can be together forever and that 2 years isn’t that long (we’ll be back at the airport waiting for that GREAT BIG SMILE, before we know it.)

Second, this adorable little boy who was visiting my ward on Sunday, he might be around 8 well he was visiting because it was the primary program and his cousin had a big part so the whole family came to watch, they were sitting a couple of rows in front of me and I couldn’t help but watch him. Then I was able to help out in my old sunbeam class and he was in primary and we was so eager to answer all the questions and to help whenever he could, we sang “Hello, Hello” to him and his sisters and he stood there with a smiled from ear to ear. That smiled touched my heart and I will forever be grateful to know that we are all Children of God and that he loves us.

Third, the moon tonight about 7:30 was beautiful. It was low, so it was huge with a bit of a yellow tint. It makes me grateful to know that there is a great big world out there that was created by a loving heavenly father. My dad has a favorite primary song that comes to mind whenever I am sitting in the forest or on the beach, watching the sun come up or go down, whenever I am looking out the window of my house because it’s too hot to go outside or looking out a tiny window of an airplane. The song is…

“My Heavenly Father Loves Me”

Whenever I hear the song of a bird
Or look at the blue, blue sky,
Whenever I feel the rain on my face
Or the wind as it rushes by,
Whenever I touch a velvet rose
Or walk by our lilac tree,
I’m glad that I live in this beautiful world
Heavenly Father created for me.

How perfect is that! There have been times that this song has brought tears to my eyes, (which really isn’t a surprise, considering I cry at everything) but it reminds me to be grateful for the small things.

So, here are three of this year’s mental pictures, they are dear to my heart and had some serious impact on me, as I ponder each day before I read my scriptures and say my prayers, the first two just keep coming back to me, was I suppose to learn something from that little down syndrome boys smile or from Elder Gurr’s eagerness to serve the Lord , I don’t know, but what I do know is that it has reminded me of how much my Father in Heaven loves me and that I am not alone even though it feels like it sometimes, I have an amazing family who I love and they love me, I am a daughter of God, the Savior atoned for my sins so that I can return to him someday! I have so much to be grateful for why wait until Thanksgiving to say it!

PS…thank you Brittney!