Holly and Sam: September 2008

"Patience means active waiting and enduring. It means staying with something and doing all that we can—working, hoping, and exercising faith; bearing hardship with fortitude, even when the desires of our hearts are delayed. Patience is not simply enduring; it is enduring well! . . .

"Every one of us is called to wait in our own way. We wait for answers to prayers. We wait for things which at the time may appear so right and so good to us that we can’t possibly imagine why Heavenly Father would delay the answer. . . .

"Patience means to abide in faith, knowing that sometimes it is in the waiting rather than in the receiving that we grow the most."

~ President Dieter F. Uchtdorf, "Continue in Patience," April 2010

The pathway is broken,
And the signs are unclear,
And I don't know the reason why You brought me here,
But just because You love me the way that You do,
I'm gonna walk through the valley
If You want me to.

'Cause I'm not who I was
When I took my first step.
And I'm clinging to the promise You're not through with me yet.
So if all of these trials bring me closer to you,
Then I will walk through the fire
If You want me to.

It may not be the way I would have chosen,
When you lead me through a world that's not my home,
But You never said it would be easy;
You only said I'd never go alone.

So when the whole world turns against me,
And I'm all by myself,
And I can't hear You answer my cries for help,
I'll remember the suffering Your love put You through,
And I will go through the valley If You want me to

~ Ginny Owens, "If You Want Me To"

Our Favorite Books

All Creatures Great and Small [James Herriott]
Anne of Green Gables [Lucy Maud Montgomery]
Betsy-Tacy Series [Maud Hart Lovelace]
Chrestomanci series [Diana Wynn Jones]
Chronicles of Narnia [C.S. Lewis]
Cross My Heart, Hope to Spy [Ally Carter]
Ella Enchanted [Gail Carson Levine]
Goose Girl [Shannon Hale]
Hobbit [J.R.R. Tolkien]
Howl's Moving Castle [Diana Wynn Jones]
Just One Wish [Janette Rallison]
Lord of the Rings [J.R.R. Tolkien]
Man in the Brown Suit [Agatha Christie]
Pride and Prejudice [Jane Austen]
Princess Academy [Shannon Hale]
Queen's Thief series [Megan Whalen Turner]
Queen's Thief series [Megan Whalen Turner]
Sabriel [Garth Nix]
Where the Red Fern Grows [Wilson Rawls]

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