The Dermody Family: Great Advice!

Journals/Blogs

President Kimball said, "People often use the excuse that their lives are uneventful and nobody would be interested in what they have done. But I promise you that if you will keep your journals and records, they will indeed be a source of great inspiration to your families, to your children, your grandchildren, and others, on through the generations. Each of us is important to those who are near and dear to us—and as our posterity read of our life's experiences, they, too, will come to know and love us. And in that glorious day when our families are together in the eternities, we will already be acquainted."

Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you.
And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts.
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
Which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you,
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
and He bends you with His might that His arrows might go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies,
so He loves also the bow that is stable.

Kahlil Gibran

Build Wisely

A HOME IS MUCH MORE THAN A HOUSE BUILT OF LUMBER, BRICK, OR STONE. A HOME IS MADE OF LOVE, SACRIFICE, AND RESPECT. WE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE HOMES WE BUILD. WE MUST BUILD WISELY, FOR ETERNITY IS NOT A SHORT VOYAGE. THERE WILL BE CALM AND WIND, SUNLIGHT AND SHADOW, JOY AND SORROW. BUT IF WE REALLY TRY, OUR HOME CAN BE A BIT OF HEAVEN HERE ON EARTH. THE THOUGHTS WE THINK, THE DEEDS WE DO, THE LIVES WE LIVE NOT ONLY INFLUENCE THE SUCCESS OF OUR EARTHLY JOURNEY, THEY ALSO MARK THE WAY TO OUR ETERNAL GOALS.

--THOMAS S.MONSON

Monday, September 15, 2008

Great Advice!

I just opened an email from a dear friend that included the link to this following video. It was just what I needed today. The video is the words from a talk given on May 14, 1996 by Elder F. Enzio Busche of the Quorum of the Seventy at a BYU Devotional. The clip runs just under 7 minutes. It is very uplifting and certainly applicable to all christians and not just mormons. I hope you would watch it, but I have to admit that my reasons for posting are somewhat selfish. I want to know exactly where to find it when I want to watch it again!

3 comments:

Brownie Bites said...: That was so great! Thanks Jenn. I want to find a hard copy of the words and place certain parts when I can read them frequently. I always need a little reminder to focus me on what really matters. BTW-Trevor A. goes into the MTC on Wed. Pray for Durrell.; September 15, 2008 at 3:28 PM
Lisa said...: Wow! Can I steal this from you? I love it!; September 15, 2008 at 10:20 PM
Jenn said...: Please, in this case, steal away! LOL.; September 16, 2008 at 7:10 AM