Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Try a little harder, to be a little better.

"I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully, tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails. 

I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp. 
I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbors children. 
I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone's garden. 
I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and the tears of a friend on my shoulder. 
I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived." 
 Marjorie Pay Hinckley


2 comments:

  1. I love that quote, and when you have a husband and children someday you will appreciate this quote even more than you do now, I PROMISE

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  2. I've never heard that! I love it!

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