Random thoughts

***"Beginnings are scary, endings are usually sad, but it's the middle that counts the most. Just give hope a chance to float up - and it will too."

***"A child can fall down and hurt himself, even if his dad is right there beside him. That doesn't mean his dad allowed it to happen. But the child knows with a Father's unconditional love, the Father will pick up the child and carry him and try to heal him. The Father will cry when the child cries. And the Father will rejoice when the child is well. In all the moments of my life, Heavenly Father has been right there beside me. The truth of God's love is not that he allows bad things to happen, it's his promise that he'll be there with us when they do."

***"I got more love in my heart for that man than any body ought to be allowed. Sometimes love isn't fireworks. Sometimes, love just comes softly."

***Life is different now. It's not about wants, it's about needs.

***"If you can't find anything to be thankful for, be thankful for whoever invented the toothbrush." - Marjorie Pay Hinkley

***I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully, tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long perfectly manicures fingernails. I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp. I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbors children. I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someones garden. I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and the tears of a friend on my shoulder. I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived." -Marjorie Pay Hinkley