Monday, January 30, 2012

Yes...Yes I do

“I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully, tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails. I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp. I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbors children. I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone's garden. I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and the tears of a friend on my shoulder. I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived.”

Marjorie Pay Hinckley

4 comments:

TheKeilShpeel said...

Thank you!!!! This is just what I needed to hear today.

karen said...

I needed this too!

Kelsi {John, Jake, Georgia, Naomi, Alice} said...

the funny thing is... you exemplify all of that. you live life to the fullest AND have everything beautifully put together. you really are amazing and i really do want to be just like you.

thank you for your example.
and for the reminder.

i needed it.

love you!

KickButtMommy said...

Always loved this quote.