Really look around you...what do YOU see????

Good morning my sweet friends, I pray your Friday is off to a great start and that the weekend looks to hold joy and laughter, that you have special plans for you and family and that memories will be in the making. It is a sunny, beautiful, bird singing day here in Utah with the temperatures already in the mid 30's. Oh happy day!!!


In prayer this morning as I sat with my head tilted toward the sun allowing God's bounty to wash over me, I felt warm, I felt joyful and I felt safe! Thank you God for all the blessings that you lay before us to enjoy. I thanked him for giving my friend Star the strength and the will that has been needed to continue to gain health each and every day, her journey in rehabilitation will be a long one but after all she has overcome it will be a piece of cake for her. I asked God to bless my friends sister as she goes through surgery today, that he might hold her in his arms and reassure her that all will be well, that the pacemaker will be replaced without incident, that she will re-gain her strength so that her life here will be filled with many happy years. I asked God to continue to bless all of those we have prayed for this week, that each of them be given what is needed to get them back on track, and back on their feet. I asked special blessings for my favorite "golden girl" and her very special "caregiver" that this weekend be filled with clarity and that many memories be shared. Father please bless each of my family and friends with overwhelming love, safety in all that they are doing, peace in their hearts, calm in their minds and comfort in their bodies. I ask these blessings and favors humbly in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen. 




Are you am optimist or a pessimist? I love optimistic people, when I come into contact with them...which sometimes is very rare...I find myself smiling and wanting to be a better me!!!


I Am Optimistic

I am optimistic about the future of the human race. Now many of my friends have asked me time and again how I can have such hope for the future in the face of the problems we have today. Hunger, pollution, sickness, inflation, recession, unemployment, wars, and terrorism fill so many hearts with fear. This world seems to be overflowing too with greed, hypocrisy, anger, hatred, prejudice, and intolerance. A better life for ourselves and our children seems for many to be some impossible dream. How then can I be so optimistic? 

My optimism comes from looking into the hearts and souls of all the people I see everyday. I see a little boy holding open a heavy door for an elderly man walking with a cane. I see a young mother carrying a baby in her arms buy an extra box of macaroni in the store and put it in the food drive box to help feed the hungry. I see 3 different people pull off the road to help a motorist whose car broke down. I see a lady going door to door to share the extra vegetables she had grown in her garden with her neighbors. I see teenagers giving up their Spring and Summer vacations to spend their time helping to repair the homes of the poor and elderly. I see a man taking off his one Winter coat and giving it to a woman who has none. I see people give their time, talents, and energies to make the life of someone else a little better and a little brighter. Everywhere I look I see people with smiling faces and kind hearts. Everywhere I look I see people helping people, people caring for our world, and people loving their neighbors as themselves. Everywhere I look I see people living as God meant for us to live. 

That is why I remain so optimistic about us all. Sometimes we fail, are selfish, and create more problems than we solve. Still, in our hearts we are good. In our souls we are God’s children. In our lives we are loving beings capable of saving this world for us and our children.