Take Time to Remember

Thursday May 31, 2012

This morning I woke up very early thinking about the wedding and life. I decided it was time to put on my ‘big girl pants’ and deal with it. I took my pre-chemo medicine and got working on wedding invitations again. If going through chemo is what I have to do to get better and get my life back, then going through chemo is exactly what I am going to do. I must remember what a sweet friend told me yesterday. It is a quote from the book by Marjorie Pay Hinckley called "Small and Simple Things."

"It's a valuable exercise to close your eyes every once in a while and think, 'What is the most wonderful moment I have lived through during the past year?' It might be part of a grand event or a very simple moment, perhaps a brief interaction with another person. The grand or the simple, it doesn't matter. Just the remembering will lift your spirits, and warm feelings will fill your soul."

When I close my eyes and look back on the past year, there have been many, many wonderful moments where I have had brief interactions with amazing people who have lifted my spirits and warmed my soul by their love and friendship and example. In times of challenge and discouragement, I will try to close my eyes and remember those moments and remember to trust in the Lord.