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 grass stains on my shoes from mowing Sister Schenck's lawn. I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbor's children. I want to be there with a little dirl under my fingernails from helping to weed someone's garden. I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and 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

Monday, November 1, 2010

goodbye for now.

{thanks kate and cindy. you've inspired me}

If my computer is on the humm of it seems to draw me to it.
Is this bad? Yes.
Is it one of Satans tricks to waste our time? Yes.
I keep thinking...
but if I don't, I won't know what everyone is up to...
or,
No one will know what I am up to.
This is what I say:
who cares.
The important people will pick up the phone and call me if they want to know what is going on in my life.
And I will do the same.
I don't need a minute by minute update.
That ruins the fun of running into someone, you haven't seen in a while, at the grocery store. You used to be able to chat and say, hey, what you been up to.
But now, you already know.
So what's there to say?
I am giving a challenge to all you facebookers, bloggers, tweeters, my spacers..
give it a rest.
It will be refreshing and wonderful how much more time you have to be with family and friends...
or just having more time to relax.
or maybe do a little house work.
The possibilities are endless!

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