It's time to move on....

I am grateful for "O" - Optimism

I am grateful for the attitude of Optimism

I am probably not a very optimistic person.  Someone ask me why I don't come out of my house more, do more with other people? - my answer to her that day was "People are stupid",   it's kinda haunted me that I actually said that out loud or that I even thought it.  Since then I've been more aware of that tough and attempted to be more optimistic and have more faith in people.  After all my mom raised me with a couple poems about that, that should have helped me since I know the poems and President Hinckley said the following about it;

 "We have so much to live for, so much to hope for!  Humanity is essentially good.  We are all of one great family.  We can give strength to the voice of hope. We can give thanks to those who work for peace. We can give added attention to those who feed the hungry and bind up the wounds of conflict. To the extent we cultivate this virtue of OPTIMISM, we will bless all the word's people!"

and Mother taught me:

Mr Meant-to has a comrade,
And his name is Didn't-do;
Have you ever chanced to meet them?

Did they ever call on you?


These two fellows live together

In the house of Never-win, 

And I'm told that it is haunted,

By the ghost of Might-have-been.

And

"Cynics do not contribute, skeptics do not create, doubters do not achieve."  idk who said this  (mom)!

And

"A young couple came to see me a while ago.  Six months earlier, they had been married. They had declared their love one for another. They had pledged their loyalty one to another. Now, the young man came to my office disillusioned, bitter, and heartbroken. His wife, he said, did this and that -- simple little things of small consequence, such as leaving the dishes undone when she left for work in the morning.  And nothing seemed to make her happy. Then his wife came in, a beautiful girl of great talent. She spoke of her husband's faults. He was stingy. He did not pick up his clothes. He was careless. Each had his or her faults, every one of which was easily correctable. The problem lay in the fact that these two had a stronger inclination to emphasize each other's faults than to talk of their respective virtues. With a little discipline, each could have changed. WIth a little desire, each could have spoken with a different tone.   But neither was willing. They had permitted a negative attitude and outlook to destroy the sweetest, richest association of life. They had thrown away with careless and sour words the hopes and dreams of eternity. With criticism and shouting, they had violated the most sacred of all relationships.  Criticism and pessimism destroys families, undermine institutions of all kins, defeat nearly everyone and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations." 

--Gordon B Hinckley

My plea, my pray is for me and you to find the good, be positive, be still in the noise and look for the positive -

 BE OPTIMISTIC!

Save a Girl, Save a generation!

well I have a few days of makeup work to do!  Just as my son who seems to be failing History currently!!!  Thus he has had the computer and all the rights thereof!!! Now it's my turn...

Looking over the weeks in Feb I found a few things I'd like to mention, the first being where and when I found and fell in love with a quote of President Gordon B. Hinckley... and at least recorded it Feb 10 2008.

"It is so tremendously important that the women of the church stand strong and immovable for that which is correct and proper under the plan of the Lord.  They must Begin in their own home.  The can teach it in their classes. The can voice it in their communities.  They MUST be the teachers and the guardians of their daughters.  When You Save A Girl, You Save A Generation.  I see this as the one bright shining hope in a world that is marching toward moral self-destruction."

I remember just loving this.  And the talk that went with it.  So maybe it is true, if we write it, it is One more way for us to Remember and I need all kinds of help remembering!!!!  I am often caught reminding people "I have no memory, when God gave out blessings/talents...I didn't get a memory!!"

promises, journals, paper vs blogging??!!!!

To you woman of today, who are old or young...May I suggest that you write, that you keep journals, that you express your thoughts on paper.  It will assist you in various ways....
---Gordon B. Hinckley

My daughter and I were talking she was asking how to start a journal and what to write...this is my teacher on Journals and good to review again....

"how happy we are as we find our grandparents’ journals and follow them through their trials and joys and gain for our own lives much from the experiences and faith and courage of our ancestors.
Accordingly, we urge our young people to begin today to write and keep records of all the important things in their own lives and also the lives of their ancestors in the event that their parents should fail to record all the important incidents in their own lives. Your own private journal should record the way you face up to challenges that beset you. Do not suppose life changes so much that your experiences will not be interesting to your posterity. Experiences of work, relations with people, and an awareness of the rightness and wrongness of actions will always be relevant. The Royal Bank of Canada Monthly Letter made this point when it reported, “One famed book collector divided his big library into two parts—biography and ‘all the rest.’ ”
No one is commonplace, and I doubt if you can ever read a biography from which you cannot learn something from the difficulties overcome and the struggles made to succeed. These are the measuring rods for the progress of humanity.
As we read the stories of great men, we discover that they did not become famous overnight nor were they born professionals or skilled craftsmen. The story of how they became what they are may be helpful to us all.
Your own journal, like most others, will tell of problems that recur constantly in every generation, that are as old as the world and how you dealt with them.
Your journal should contain an image of your true self rather than a picture of you that applies cosmetics to everything you ever did, making you appear to be flawless. There is a temptation to paint with words one’s virtues in rich color and whitewash the vices, but there is also the opposite pitfall of accentuating the negative. Personally, I have little respect for anyone who delves into the ugly phases of the life he is portraying, whether it be his own or another’s. The truth should be told, but we should not emphasize the negative. Even a long life full of inspiring experiences can be brought to the dust by one ugly story. Why dwell on that one ugly truth about someone whose life has been largely prudent?
The good biographer will not depend on passion but on good sense. He will weed out the irrelevant and seek the strong, novel, and interesting. Perhaps we might gain some help from reading Plutarch’s Lives, where he grouped 46 lives in pairs, a Greek and a Roman in each pair. He tried to epitomize the most celebrated parts of their stories rather than to insist upon every slightest detail of them.
Your journal is your autobiography, so it should be kept carefully. You are unique, and there may be incidents in your experience that are more noble and praiseworthy in their way than those recorded in any other life. There may be a flash of illumination here and a story of faithfulness there; you should truthfully record your real self and not what other people may see in you.
Your story should be written now while it is fresh and while the true details are available.
Writing a journal is the literature of superior people. Each individual can become superior in his own humble life.
What could you do better for your children and your children’s children than to record the story of your life, your triumphs over adversity, your recovery after a fall, your progress when all seemed black, your rejoicing when you had finally achieved?
Some of what you write may be ordinary events and places, but there will also be rich passages that will be quoted by your posterity.
Get a notebook, my young folks, a journal that will last through all time, and maybe the angels may quote from it for eternity. Begin today and write in it your goings and comings, your deepest thoughts, your achievements and your failures, your associations and your triumphs, your impressions and your testimonies. Remember, the Savior chastised those who failed to record important events... Spencer W. Kimball