The Dermody Family: Fire!!!

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, June 8, 2009

Fire!!!

How would you like this to happen in the middle of your stake conference? I can't even imagine what would go through your mind as you watch your church burn down. This was in Cambridge, MA during a broadcast from Salt Lake City. Everyone was evacuated safely. The fire was started from faulty electrical wires.

Crazy, you can find anything on youtube. A friend of mine posted this on her fb page! This isn't the building that I attend, but still fairly close so to speak. It remarkably looks quite the same as our building though or at least it use to. It's really sad. Now, for all you ppl that sleep in church, wake up, you never now what my spark your attention!

2 comments:

Niebean said...: That's the ward Roger and I met in, sad, huh?; June 8, 2009 at 9:57 PM
Jocelyn said...: Isn't that crazy!
it has made a lot more work for Ryszard because now he has to inspect all the attics of the building out here. The Cambridge Stake pres, came out here last Sunday to look at our church, because our building is build almost the same as Cambridge. Hopefully we won't have that happens to us.; June 9, 2009 at 1:44 PM