Abundant Life: Still alive

Thursday, January 15, 2009

Still alive

Wow! I'm really behind on posts! It is ironic because I wrote this very short christmas letter and told people to check out the blog for more info, sent it out to 75 people and then promptly didn't update the blog for ages. Sorry if you've been waiting!

If you didn't get a card, here it is (email me your address if you want to be on the mailing list=):

Many further posts coming. Stay tuned!

1 comment:

bclaireJanuary 16, 2009 at 5:25:00 AM MST
i actually sort of feel like i should be in your family christmas letter. just sayin..
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words to live by

Make up your mind to be happy-even when you don’t have money, even when you don’t have a clear complexion, even when you don’t have the Nobel Prize. Some of the happiest people I know have none of these things the world insists are necessary for satisfaction and joy. Why are they happy? I suppose it is because they don’t listen very well. Or they listen too well-to the things their hearts tell them. They glory in the beauty of the earth. They glory in the rivers and the canyons and the call of the meadowlark. They glory in the love of their families, the stumbling steps of a toddler, the wise and tender smile of the elderly. They glory in honest labor. They glory in the scriptures. They glory in the presence of the Holy Ghost. One thing I know for certain: the time we have here goes by far too quickly. Don’t waste any more time sitting on the bench watching life pass you by. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin

words to live by

When despair for the world grows in me, and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be -- I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought or grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free. --Wendell Berry