Keeping a Record

"You will have significant experiences. I hope that you will write them down and keep a record of them, that you will read them from time to time and refresh you memory of those meaningful and significant things. Some may be funny. Some may be significant only to you. Some of them may be sacred and quietly beautiful. Some may build one upon another until they represent a lifetime of special experiences." Gordon B. Hinckley, 2006

Blogging: Wise or Foolish?

So, I have said many times that I love to blog because I have been terrible at journal-writing, and I am many, many years behind on my scrapbooks. And yet, I don't want to forget these things... So, when I tripped across blogging last summer, I got truly excited for the opportunity to journal, scrapbook and joke around. And though I have not yet printed my blog, I think that when I do it will truly become a journal/scrapbook.

Blogging has made it much easier for me to follow the prophet's counsel.

"You will have significant experiences. I hope that you will write them down and keep a record of them, that you will read them from time to time and refresh you memory of those meaningful and significant things. Some may be funny. Some may be significant only to you. Some of them may be sacred and quietly beautiful. Some may build one upon another until they represent a lifetime of special experience. Gordon B. Hinckley, 2006

So, I am thinking that blogging is wise. Sometimes I blog-hop too much. Sometimes I get lost in other people's great craft ideas that I will never do or remember. But if I can keep up my own blog, see what my friends are doing, and limit my hop-time I think that it is a very fulfilling activity.

So, now to my questions...

Are you obsessed with blogging?

Do you have a love/hate relationship with blogging?

Have any of you printed your blogs?

In Memory

Among the many emails this week, I received the following poem written in memory of President Hinckley's passing.

Prophetic Passing

I imagine he's running to Marjorie now,

Yes, running, not waving his cane.

I see him embracing his father and mother

While they keep repeating his name.



I see him now meeting his forebears,

Brother Brigham and Joseph are there.

Sweet reunion of prophets, united by service

That only such noble men share.


I see him embraced by the Savior

While Father says, "Good and well done.

So faithful in stalwart endurance, I welcome

My noble, most excellent son."


I then hear the ripples of laughter

As he says the reception's just fine,

But he hopes that he'll get an assignment or two

Since there's no need to waste any time.


I can hear his clear voice in the stillness

At the close of this sweet Sabbath day,

Have faith and move forward - there's work to be done.

President Hinckley would want it that way.


Anna M. Molgard

January 27, 2008

Glenn Beck's Tribute

This clip touched me.
Enjoy.
(again, scroll down and pause the music first)

We Thank Thee O God for a Prophet

On Sunday Evening we lost our beloved prophet, President Gordon B. Hinckley.

President Hinckley has always touched my heart. I always looked forward to hearing him speak. He was the prophet for most of my marriage, and I don't remember him not being in the First Presidency.
When the news came, I was shocked, and then immediately calmed. I was so overwhelmingly glad to think of him with his Sweetheart once again.


His humor was always so refreshing. I remember that at his 95th Birthday Celebration he said, '...let's do this again in 5 years.' So funny.

Also, he was advised by doctors to start 'carrying a cane.' That is exactly what he did.



He found many uses for it, from light-heartedly 'knighting' Elder Eyring as a member of the First Presidency,



- to waving to crowds of loving members of the Church.



We shall miss you greatly, President Hinckley.