So today being Sunday, I am going to take time to focus on the words the Lord has given me this week and the joy he gives me in my children.
Yesterday, M had heard Don and I talking as we were driving in the car about a place we wanted to go after we picked up D from his friend's home. When D got in the car, he asked where we were going, and M said, "to yogurt!" Don and I both busted out laughing because we did not even know that he was paying any atttention earlier and also the conversation we had was not a prolonged one: we were amazed at how he picked up on that!!! Then a couple of minutes later, we all lauged again as we were driving because D said something about a taco and M decided that he would name the lizzard he had caught earlier in the day and had been playing with for half of the day and recaught so D's friend could see it TACO. As we drove home after yogurt, he decided to take "Taco" back to where he found him so "he could be with his family."
Because I finished The Continuous Atonement this week, this will be my last entry of quotes from that amazing book. This first one is from President Boyd K. Packer "Save for the exception of the very few who defect to perdition, there is no habit, no addiction, no rebellion, no transgression, no apostasy, no crime exempted from the promise of complete forgiveness. That is the promise of the Atonement of Christ." "We are never so aware of our need for air as when we are drowning. Repenting and remaking broken covenants allows us to feel a deep sense of gratitude fo the Lord. In those moments of struggle, our needs are accentuated. When we experience our own Gethsemanes, we truly begin to value Christ's. When we recognize our own weakness, we stand in awe of His strength. Like starlight against a nighttime sky, when we see the darkness of our vices, we can also see the brightness of His virtues." "As we keep our covenants and experience the sanctifying influence of the Spirit, it is as if those dark lines anre polished over time. They actually become part of our beauty."
