"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense." -Emerson


"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing about." -Benjamin Franklin

Alma 26:30 "And we have suffered all manner of afflictions, and all this, that perhaps we might be the means of saving some soul; and we supposed that our joy would be full if perhaps we could be the means of saving some."


Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Someone Much Wiser Than I Once Said...



"Our lives are made up of thousands of everyday choices. Over the years these little choices will be bundled together and show clearly what we value."

-Boyd K. Packer

The first time that I saw this quote, it was typed on a plain white piece of office paper sitting on a chair that I wanted to sit on at church. I assumed the woman who sat there from the previous group had left it there. I was sitting too far away from the garbage so I shoved it in my bag without even reading it. 

Two months later I hit a time in my life when the decision that I made was really not the most popular. 

I personally believe that things happen for a reason. I believe that people or things are put into our paths that will help us progress in life.  They help us build perspectives and make choices. 

I come across this again, many months down the road, and as a student of stories I see how small choices I made long before that monumental one prepared me to be here now, after the choice. I also see that ever popular alternate ending and how slight changes in those choices would have smoothed my path. 

Thousands of choices ... bundled together ... That should be entertaining.

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