how to live...

i've spent the past few days in the critical care unit of the hospital,

visiting my dad, who is on his FOURTH week in there.

I finally feel brave enough to say 

i think he is on the upswing.

actually, i think he is a walking, talking miracle!

really...a MIRACLE.

thank you for your prayers...

and if you don't mind, please keep praying.

because i've been around hospitals...

and very sick people, 

when i came across this, it really struck a chord with me.

i want to live this way...

and after you read it, maybe you will too.

it is by a lady named Marjorie Pay Hinckley.

please read it...i think you'll be glad you did.

“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.” 

what a wise lady!

 

God Bless...Suzanne