The Dermody Family: Wordless Wednesday No. 7

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

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Wordless Wednesday No. 7

6 comments:

Brownie Bites said...: That picture is perfect for summer. Same thing at my house except half the neighborhood is over as well. They go from house to house to house. Crazy kids.; June 4, 2009 at 1:05 PM
Wendyburd1 said...: I love Ice Pops! Found you from a site that said blogs near me. I am a New Englander too and a Mormon. What Ward do you belong to?; June 5, 2009 at 2:35 AM
Lisa said...: Is it too late to send soda pop tabs to the girls? We can send them tomorrow, if there is still time.; June 5, 2009 at 10:22 AM
Jenn said...: The kids are in school for a couple more weeks so you may send them if you would like. We certainly appreciate your help, and the girls love all the pop tabs we have received from lots of you and lots of peeps that we know and love.
The Shriners Hospital that we donate to will be closing in a year or so. Very sad. We will have to find somewhere else to donate to after that happens, but until then we will support them until the end. :); June 5, 2009 at 1:24 PM
Nadya said...: Oh wow. I wish I was hanging out with them - I have a slight otter pop obsession as well. Our apartment has gone through 4 boxes so far this summer....; June 11, 2009 at 12:20 AM
Jenn said...: 4 boxes....this summer......HOLY MOLY!; June 12, 2009 at 6:22 PM