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Tuesday, September 13, 2022

Waiting Upon the Lord

 


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"...I am weaving at a loom with a spindle of hopes and dreams. And no matter...how lovely the pattern-no matter how many gorgeous colors I use,-always the center of it is...just a little house in a garden and red firelight and...the man I love...and children...and happiness". —Bess Streeter Aldrich—

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"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 manicured 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 neighbor's children. I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone's 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 Hinckley)

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Forever His Girl

"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects." --Herman Melville--

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My Whole Heart, My Whole Life

“...If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." —Henry David Thoreau—

"Ferdinand"

"Ferdinand"
"To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places--and there are so many--where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don't have to wait for some grand Utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human being s should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory." (Howard Zinn)

...Happily Ever After

...Happily Ever After

“Even still, we run. We have not reached our average of 57-92 years without knowing that you run through it, and it hurts and you run through it some more, and if it hurts worse, you run through it even more, and when you finish, you will have broken through. In the end, when you are done, and stretching, and your heartbeat slows, and your sweat dries, if you've run through the hard part, you will remember no pain." (Laren Groff)

Elder Jordan

Elder Jordan
Serving in the Santiago Chile Mission

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Keeping Our Eyes on the Temple

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"Georgie Porgie"

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The Best Medecine

The Best Medecine

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Sugar and Spice

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"Angel Maid"

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In the Good Ol' Summertime

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Scatter Sunshine

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Mirror to the Soul

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Man's Best Friend

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"Lulu"

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The World Is a Stage

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"Pinky"

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I Believe in Magic

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Butterfly Kisses

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Two Blessings From Above

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Hands Full Now, Hearts Full Later

Hands Full Now, Hearts Full Later

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Double the Fun

Double the Fun

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Pretty in Pink

Pretty in Pink

Personality Color Profiles

RACHEL--Blue
(32)
Red(12) White(0) Yellow(0)
FRED--White

JORDAN--Yellow
Blue
MIKAYLA--Blue

EDEN--Yellow

ABRAHM--Yellow
Red(13) White(8) Blue(7)
LILY--Red

SOPHIE--Blue

Book Reference: "The Color Code" by Dr. Taylor Hartman
Test:
http://dearl.0catch.com/ColorTest.pdf
Overview:
http://www.cobbk12.org/kennesawmountain/character/The%20Hartman%20Personality%20Test-COLORS.doc_new.pdf


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