Renewal: Facing Forward

Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth;
shall ye not know it?
-Isaiah 43:19

New house on top of a hill. New room with large south facing windows. New coat of vintage grey paint with glossy white trim. New earrings. New haircut. New year. New opportunities. New plans. New me.

A new start.

Words that have sown meaning in my life lately....

New: adjective- 

not existing before;
made, introduced, or discovered recently or now for the first time;
different from a recent previous one;
original and of a kind not seen before;
fresh;
just beginning;
reinvigorated, reformed, or restored.

A grateful heart will give you a touch of refinement that can come in no other way. 

- Marjorie Hinckley

The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. 

-James 5:16

Go forward 

and not backward. 

-D&C 128:22

I will seek it yet again... 
For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again. 
-Proverbs 23, 24

If for a while the harder you try,

the harder it gets, 

take heart.    

So it has been with the 

  best people who ever lived.        

- Jeffrey R. Holland

And the rain descended, 

and the floods came,

and the winds blew, 

and beat upon that house;

and it fell not:

  for it was founded upon a rock. 

-Matt 7:25         

She perceiveth that her merchandise 

is good. 

-Proverbs 31:18    

The future 

is as bright 

as your faith. 

-Thomas S. Monson

Sunday Sense(s): Signs and Wonder

"Lai-Lai" & "Jammy"

Airplane flights and time with children are great environments for wonder and reflection.  Some thoughts that have come to mind lately...

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Unfeigned forgiveness is not dependent on an apology; upon recognition, restitution or the reaching of an understanding.  It is not a compromise or external bargain, but rather a new internal perspective - a change within the viewpoint of your soul.  It is the liberating of your heart from the circumstances of an unfair world, and the choice of freedom from those bonds is dependent on no one else but you. 

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We all face heartbreak and adversity in this life.  The details of our circumstances are simply background - it's the grace, character, and dignity with which we handle them that really matters to the world.

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And, a recording of a song I performed in American Sign Language....  I love this song, I feel it to my soul.  

I Know He Lives

Happy Sabbath!

The Next Chapter....

And think, this heart, all evil shed away,       

 a pulse in the eternal mind, no less

                   gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;

Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;

          and laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness

                      in hearts at peace, under an English heaven.

                       ~Rupert Brooke, ' The Soldier'

Yes, the next chapter in the memoir of my life is beginning to emerge;

come September, be prepared to be called home... 

London

(For at least 12+ months.....)

My heart awaits you with warm and hopeful anticipation.