The Dermody Family: Wordless Wednesday

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, May 12, 2010

Wordless Wednesday

3 comments:

Barbara said...: Oh, Jenn, please use some words to explain Sean Patrick's getup!; May 14, 2010 at 12:15 PM
Barbara said...: By the way...the writing on Sean Patrick's shirt is a good description of him!; May 14, 2010 at 12:45 PM
Jenn said...: I don't know if one can explain that getup! A friend of ousr gave him the robot/transformer? helmet and hand protectors on Christmas Eve last year. They are a little too big, but he loves them. The piece under his nose technically goes under his eyes or on top of his nose. He insists on wearing it this way.
As far as the Cars clothes, well.......those swimming trunks he nicked at the store. Not really nicked, but I didn't see him put them in the shopping cart or on the conveyor belt to pay. (It's his job to help unload the cart at the check-out. It keeps him busy!) I discovered them when we got home, after I had already purchased them. He was digging through the bags saying, "Where are my cars? Where are my cars!?" I had no clue. They are too big too, and come almost all the way down to his ankles! Silly boy! This is his favorite outfit! He wears it all the time.
There Mom, enough words! =); May 14, 2010 at 4:01 PM