Happy New Year!

Hello Everyone,

 

Just thought I would write a quick note about Making our New Years Resolutions. Its that time again! Its a time to look back at all our accomplishments over  the last Year. Its a time to ponder, reflect and rethink the past years doings! Is is a time to take stock of our lives and do some inventory. I say out with the bad and in with the good! Lets not focus on all the couda-shouda-wouda's, but rather lets just focus on what we have done good for this last year! Give your self a pat on the back for all your milestones you made and efforts you put in this year to maybe change some things, or service your did. or just plane good deeds!

Now that you feel great about all the good things you have done over the past year its time to get started for the new year. First we must have the Desire to do great things in this year of 2012! Desire is better than what we want. What we desire comes from the heart and is in harmony with our spirit! We should pour out our heart to Heavenly Father about our desires. Let them be known! We need to follow the spirit and listen to the voice of the holy spirit.We should Have a desire to serve the lord this year and help all mankind. We need to love ourselves and what we do. We need to be kind and patient with our selves. We need to put off the natural man. Lets develop qualities this year to become like God. 

 

This new year lets become selfless, love all of Heavenly fathers children, and treat everyone well! Lets be more charitable and kind and then we will become humble, patient, Christ-like, meek. submissive, and forgiving to name just  a few food qualities. So lets be diligent and seek him. Lets have the true desire in our hearts to do these things. These are the kind of New year resolutions we should be making. Lets rid ourselves of all our sins and bad thoughts. Lets pray more and have faith. Then we will receive what we truly desire! So out with the bad and in with the good!  Its onward and upward!! Lets all make it a wonder, awesome, and fabulous New Year of 2012!!!!....SO GO GET EM!!!!!...Beverly

Merry Christmas

CHRISTMAS THROUGH THE YEAR

                                                   A  little bit of Christmas lives.
                                                   Within the heart each day,
                                                   When you do a kindly dead,
                                                    Give a word of cheer away.
                                                    Why should we save our kindnesses
                                                     For just one special time---
                                                     The world needs love and caring
                                                     When Christmas bells don't chime!

                                                      Reach out a hand to help someone:
                                                      Cheer some heart today.
                                                      The gifts that mean the most
                                                      Aren't those for which we pay.

                                                      Those tinseled scenes have faded
                                                      That mark the yuletide cheer,
                                                      Christmas living in the heart
                                                      Grows brighter through the year!

                                                                                         Kay Hoffman  

Well I just want to wish everyone a very " Merry Christmas" and a very " Happy new Year 2012" Yea!!! Celebrate big!!!!......................See you next year! Beverly   

I Really Have a Wonderful Life

I watched a great movie on TV the other night. It was that good old favorite Holiday classic that most of you watch every year, it's called "A Wonderful Life." It is really a good Christmas movie! I really got into it this year. As I sat and watched it I realized I really do have a wonderful Life. 

 

I could relate to George Bailey as he went through all his trials and started hating his miserable life and his job at the old broken down Building and Loan Company. What really started out all his problems was his attitude. He had a bad attitude when he was dating Mary, his childhood friend.  She had liked him all through school. She had to coax him to be nice to her and to date her. His brother later went on to be a war Hero. George did not get to pursue his dreams because his dad died early on and he had to take over the bank and protect his assets and the people of the town from that mean old Mr. Potter. He nearly drowned as a kid and couldn't hear out of one of his ears. Also his friend Sam Wayne-wright was  a great success in the plastic Industry and so George was a quiet jealous of him. So everything was going wrong in his  life. Things just just kept getting worse and worse. His wife Mary was so kind and loving through all this. Finally when the money from the bank gets misplaced or taken and is gone he has had it! He now wants to jump off a bridge and end his life!

 

How may of us have felt this way at one time or another? Most of us can relate to this story. I know I can. Every Christmas Season gets really hard for me . Its a busy time of year that can make or break us. Well luckily George has an angel that comes from Heaven and saves his life. He helps George see that he really had  a wonderful life after all. It took George almost loosing his life ad never being born to realize just how good he had it! He truly had a great wife and family that loved him. He may have not been rich monetarily but he was rich in his blessings.

 

Well the same goes for me and probably most of us. This great movie helped me realize I have a wonderful life! I am trying to be the most up beat I have ever been through the Holidays! I am trying to be the most giving I have ever been and I am trying to live do all the commandments better than I ever have. I am trying to truly have a Christ centered life! This is where I will find my salvation and my happiness. Going to the temple helps me tremendously. It protects me from the out side evils of the world. The most important thing we can ever do is to remember and love our Savior Jesus Christ. Especially this time of the year. What gifts can we truly give him this Christmas?  We need to invite his spirit into our homes and be as loving, kind,  forgiving, and tolerant as he was. He is truly our King of Kings.

      
So at the end of the movie "Its a wonderful Life" George Bailey is given his  Life back. He doesn't care if he goes to jail as long as he can have his family  and his life everything else is secondary! So he gets his second chance. All his friends, neighbors, and customers came to his aide and rounded up all the money he was missing and gave it to him so he would not go to jail for something he did not do. Isn't this a great story with a great powerful message that really teaches us whats important in this life! 

Well I wish you all a very "Merry Christmas" and a joyous Happy Holiday Season!..........Beverly