Thankful Thursday

Phew! It as time for a blog outline change! I like this one, what do you think?

For Thankful Thursday I am thankful for real love. The type of love that I feel I have a lot of in my life. Real love comes in all kinds of forms: romantic love, true friendship love and Godly love.

Romantic love: Last night I wasn't feeling well and I had to put the kids to bed by myself because Andrew was off at cub scouts. I put the kids to sleep and expected he would be a while because he had mentioned the last week that a lot of the guys played basketball after scouts and invited him to come the next week. I expected he would probably stay to play a while even though he doesn't like playing basketball since he doesn't think he is good at it. He figured it would be a good chance to get to know people. When he came back at the normal time I was surprised and asked why he didn't stay to play. He said because he knew I was at home not feeling well and wanted to come home. Awwwlll. Then he sat down with me and finished watching one of my favorite TV shows, Bones with me. He always lets me put my feet up on his lap and tries to make sure I am comfortable. Last night I asked if he would play with my hair and he gladly did - it felt sooo good. We both had fun just being together because we love each other and like to spend time together even if it is doing nothing at all. By the way - who is with me here - Booth and Brennan need to totally get married! Its so romantic how much they both like each other but haven't really realized it yet. Com'mon Bones producers - make them kiss already!!!

Friendly love: On Tuesday I was having particularly lousy day. I was having one of those "down on myself" days because I wasn't feeling good and the house literally was like a friend puts it "trailer trash tornado scene". My dishes were everywhere, I had 4 loads of laundry waiting to be folded, the kids were still either in their PJ's or half dressed and I had not showered yet. I was feeling a bit overloaded because I had all these things to do but just feeling lousy physically so I couldn't do them. ::Bleep: you Thyroid! I called a friend to complain who volunteered to look up some homeopathic solutions for me and then I called another friend who lives nearby and she was close so she said she would come by. She came by and played with my hair (I love that if you cant tell) while I sobbed and then she got up and cleaned my whole kitchen, dishes and floor and table - the works. She was so wonderful. It made me feel so much better just to have some light under the pile of rocks I felt like I was under. Then I got on my computer and I had an email from the other friend with lots of great tricks I can try to use. I am so grateful for friends who really take the time for me.

Godly love: I am thankful for the times in my life (especially recently) where I have known that there is God who loves and looks out for us. Many of my experiences are too personal to recount but I know that He loves me and that He is aware of my difficult times. A friend's blog reminded me of a really great talk given by Elder Worthlin in General Conference a few times back. It is called Sunday Will Come. He reminds us that on the Friday Jesus died - it was the lowest any human or Godly being had ever had. He suffered for our sins, was rejected by his friends, wrongly accused, and sentenced to death by his own people. It was a horrible day. Elder Worthlin related that we too have really difficult things in our life - times where we feel like we are the lowest and that it just cant get worse. But Elder Worthlin then reminds us that after the Friday - Sunday came! Sunday came and Jesus was resurrected and in Glory and Power. From His lowest of all lows came the good and highest point in human history. Elder Worthlin reminded us and myself particularly that Sunday will come - for all of us. The days will get easier and whatever we are dealing with - we will get through it through God's help and that our Sunday will come when we can be happy again. Ive been thinking about this a lot lately especially with Easter just recently. If any of you are struggling with any personal difficulty - remember Sunday Will Come.

Ohh and I need to give a shout out for my friend Tawnya - Congrats on the new baby boy!