So I woke up
this morning after the craziest dream and I’m gonna share it with you. Don’t worry there is a point to it…it just
might take a moment for you to understand the reasoning behind it.
In my dream
I had several unsightly zits on my face and I was off and about to some place
spectacular where people would see me.
Suzy had taken my cover-up stick and so I borrowed hers. Well in the real life tendency I have to
sensitivities in my skin I, in this dream, reacted to Suzy’s cover-up stick,
breaking out in a rash and eventually blistering and bleeding, skin peeling off
of my face.
Yes, I know,
stupid dream, but what does it have to do with anything? Absolutely nothing, but that is what has been
going through my head over and over this morning, every gory, gruesome bit,
when it should have been amazing things that happened last week, like…
Lunch with
my mom that turned into the whole day and dinner that night.
Beautiful
dirt for the garden spot bought for only $20.00 for the whole truck load.
Suzy winning
third place in her FFA science project at Richfield that she was not expecting.
Nan getting
her FFA state degree also at said FFA getaway in Richfield.
Nan off on
her date with Ethan for her prom and all the girly fun of shopping and dress
fitting and fingernail painting and picture taking that goes along with that…not
to mention the splendid time that she had and all while looking like a princess
the whole time.
Or, finally,
the fact that Jason and I had the busiest day ever Saturday with gigs and life
and somehow we made it through it spectacularly. And by the way the next day was daylight
saving time resulting in only 3 1/2 very grumpy hours of sleep for me and I
taught Relief Society that day through a very groggy mind and the Stake Relief
Society Presidency decided to show up, but you know what…although it for sure
was not my best lesson ever, it definitely wasn’t my worse and I didn’t make a
complete fool out of myself, and that too was a pretty excellent thing too.
So why does
this stupid dream keep going through my head instead of these wonderful
things? Why do the jokes of presidential
candidates that are running for president keep haunting me and the unending ache
that I feel when I think of all those innocent babies that keep being murdered
in the name of feminism keep clouding my mind or the hunger and war and famine
and wickedness and callousness of society keep hounding me instead of the
wonderful things in life, like for one, I am going to be a grandmother the end
of July to the fabulous Brantley that I have already gotten to see on the ultra
sound machine with my husband and my son and his beautiful wife. What about the neighbors and ward members
that I love and the friendships of such beauty with people all over that I
hold, or the fact that I have the most sexy, amazing, kind, generous, fun
husband in the whole world. I am a
member of Christ’s church and have every blessing that they had in ancient
times that go right along with that, including temple marriage and the perfect
outline of how to live a blessed happy life written for me in sacred
scriptures. Why does my mind gravitate
more to the sad things in life than the beautiful?
I think it
is human nature, and don’t get me wrong, if no one, me included, never thought
on those sad things nothing would ever change, nothing would ever get better
and that too would be a very big sin, but I think an even bigger sin is in losing
ourselves to self-pity, to doubt, to harsh things of life and neglecting to be
grateful and even very happy for the millions and even billions of blessings
that we have in life. Shouldn’t we be
mindful of all the good around us, shouldn’t we be grateful? Shouldn’t we hold ourselves responsible for
the attitude that we choose to share with the rest of the world, especially the
ones we love the most, our family? Aren’t
I showing ingratitude when I don’t choose to be happy in life, and not just
kinda, but truly and really happy in life when I have all those millions and
billions of blessings? Don’t I have some
responsibility in choosing that happiness and by so doing sharing it with the
rest of the world?
One of the
prayers this Sunday in our church service mentioned those around the world that
were praying also and the spirit that they sent around the world. All those millions praying in different
churches and different religions all over the world because it was the Sabbath softening
the world just a little by their faith that day. Doesn’t me choosing to be happy and looking
to my God given blessings each and every day send a little peace out into the
world and if more and more people chose to be happy and look to their
blessings, wouldn’t the compilation of those millions of happy vibes soften the
world just a little?
Don’t forget
those other sad and important things, because it is up to you to help change
them, all of us together thinking and praying and working and enlightening
others on those sad and sinful things in the world will compile together to
help to change them, but a happy, grateful heart along the way can only add to
the change that together can soften the whole entire world.
Now…here is
a picture of Nan’s most fabulous desert that she had on her amazing prom date
to hold you over for one more day and help to sweeten those happy thoughts you
and I are going to choose for ourselves today.
