Thoughts from Home

 
I'm trying to show how pretty the flowers are right now but it is not quite there with this picture. It is Happy Birthday week for the old folks. 55 sounds younger and younger each year. It has been an unusual time for me. Since getting sick which seemed so long ago to me, and now not being able to hear very well, I have had cause to reflect. I hear my heartbeat pretty good and am always asking Kim if there are sirens...I hear sirens all the time in my head. I have become a little discouraged. I would like to move on. So I asked for something to help me to move beyond this point and I opened my scriptures. I read in 3 Nephi 27:23-
Write the things which ye have seen and heard, ....for behold, out of the books which have been written and which shall be written, shall this people be judged...for by them shall their works be known unto men. So I just want to write a small part of what I have learned. I have been reminded that I take my good health for granted. I am reminded that many people deal with physical handicaps every day and their problems are not going to get better. I have learned how much I appreciate my hearing and how it affects every thing I do. I have learned how easy it is to be discouraged when you don't feel good and how much I appreciate Brooke's example of pressing forward in spite of how you feel. I have also learned how much my family means to me and how happy I am to be a wife and a mother. I was listening to the Conference talks as I worked today and Elder Nelson was talking about families. I felt a wave of emotion as words came to my mind of my husband and children...steadfast and immoveable. Right after I thought it, he spoke about it. I am so happy to be alive and to have a body and to have the gospel of Jesus Christ giving me strength to do what I need to.