I love these two quotes because they remind me of who I want to be and how I can find balance from day to day. I have the first one up in my kitchen to read often and the second one in my baby's room where I can see it from the rocking chair. Sometimes things can seem so crazy but when I read this first quote from Sister Hinckley I am reminded that life was not designed to be clean and orderly and calm all the time! I do appreciate the reminder also to soak in the moments with my little kids and to forget about all the stuff (like excess housework) that will always be here waiting for me tomorrow.
I really lived - "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 Schenk'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 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."
"Babies Don't Keep - Cleaning and scrubbing can wait till tomorrow...for babies grow up we've learned to our sorrow...So quiet down cobwebs -dust go to sleep...I'm rocking my baby and babies don't keep."
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