The road of good intentions...

Scott has been out of town for a week and he leaves again in a few days on a business trip. (I'm am sure grateful he works so hard:)) I did fantastic the first few days he was gone to dejunk, clean and organize. It felt great until our super duper vacuums grabbed hold of the berber carpet and pulled it up. He had warned me about this. Then a part to the vacuum fell off. Then I broke a shelf on the bookcase and next my Sleeping Beauty snow globe from High School had been leaking ruining another shelf. I then felt very sad. Scott adores the vacuum and is particular about details and keeping things nice. I like that about him because he also takes amazing care of me. But I panicked and thought what f he is so disappointed in me? He laughed when I told him and felt sad I was so worried about how he would react. He was due home in the evening but did not make it home until 3amish. And at 4am he was fixing the vacuum. I also was busy getting ready for our leadership training. We do it two times a year for all the YW leaders. We also combine with Primary and Relief Society so it is about 100 women. For some reason nothing was going right. Sue and I were very stressed. I had a the best of intentions but things kind of fell apart. However I could feel the spirit of the Lord and felt humbled and blessed to serve with amazing women who love God and strive to live a Christ centered life. I thought of the youth I serve and how much they make me want to be a better person, how they inspire me, how strong they are with moral character. These are amazing youth. So even though not everything worked out just right I had a glimpse of how lucky I am to be alive right now on the earth and to be surrounded by examples of the Believers. It is our theme for 2009. I made the photo collage for each ward so the youth can work on memorizing it. Laurie laughed at Candice and I on the stand, since we are so different. I was thinking yeah-- but, we are both daughters of God. We are different, but there are others who are even more different than me. If I disagree with every single other thing as another person on this earth I still know that they are a fellow child of God. They might not even agree with me on that point but there is something about finding some common ground. Maybe it is the Christmas music I have been listening to but I really love the idea of peace. What if all the people even the politicians at some level had good intentions in the beginning at least to them? What if I could give the benefit of the doubt more often. Then I could make a little difference and maybe help someone else see there are options. Emily thought if things get really hard it will be a huge blessing. Think how amazing our grandparents were and they were that way in part due to the world they grew up in. They did not have everything as easy as we do and they learned good values like thrift, industry, honesty, family, honor, freedom, and trust in God. If times get tough we might be closer as families have stronger morals for the upcoming generation and remember God again:) These are all good things that might come from bad or less ideal circumstances.