Quote of the Day:
Kindness in words creates confidence; kindness in thinking creates profoundness; kindness in giving creates love. Lao-tzu

What I am Reading Today: The Lord's Holy Days: Powerful Witnesses of Truth. My dear friend Becky told me about this book a while ago, and I'm just now getting around to reading it. It is amazing. It's connecting dots for me that I didn't even know were there. Heady stuff.

What We Are Watching . . . Again: OK. I'm really not a movie-crazed person. But all the male people in my house . . that is, everyone except me and one girl snake . . really like movies. So when I was in Nauvoo I picked up a video for them. I wanted to get them "Esther" from Liken the Scriptures, but it wasn't out yet. So I just grabbed something with boys on the front--"Follow Me, Boys", a Disney flick from the 60's with Fred MacMurray and a young Kurt Russell. OH, my. This is a truly great movie. It's based on a true story (and an out-of-print book I'm trying frantically to find) of a man who moves to a small Iowa town and begins a Scout troop to keep the boys out of mischief. He ends up marrying but being unable to have children, so he really adopts and gives his heart and soul to these boys. It shows through the years how he gave his time and love, and then at the end shows how much this was appreciated and meant--generations of boys now grown show up to honor him and what he gave to their lives. We laughed, we cried, we put it in again . . . and again. Fun Scout memories, boy hijinks, a campout that finds itself in the midst of "war games" during WWII--wow. It's like "Mr. Holland's Opus" except even more wholesome, even more self-sacrificing--and it came first! LOL They always tease me about "chick flicks" Well, this is a "guy flick" but one I love too. They just don't make them like this anymore. Highly recommended!