I read this quote recently and I love it. It helps me keep life in the proper perspective. Marjorie Hinckley was an amazingly wise woman.
"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 grass stains on my shoes from mowing Sister Schenk's lawn. I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbor's children. I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someones garden. I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and tears of a friend on my shoulder. I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived." -Marjorie Hinckley
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Thanks for putting that quote on there. I get discouraged sometimes about worldly things. I think we all do. Even if we are grateful for what we have, deep down we all want a little more. But that quote makes you think about how service and charity are better than having those things.
It reminds me how truly wonderful all the unglamerous things I do each day really are.
-Kirstin
I love that quote. She was a very wise, very down-to-earth woman. That makes me feel good about choosing not to get dressed and clean the house, but sit and play kitchen with the kids...sometimes! I'm going to have to think about that more often. It's a great reminder.
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