Take time to watch the sun rise!

Today was has been one of those days where you wish you had never gotten out of bed! and it is only 9:30 in the morning!
Collins got a flat tire on the way to work and he discovered he didn't have his jack, so hannah and i had to hurry and get dressed and run him his jack, but the spare tire wouldn't fit on the flat tire so we had to move a tire from the front to the back and then put the spare on the front. So that done we get in the car to hurry back home and finish getting hannah ready for school cause we are running really late!
But then as Collins goes to leave his truck won't start, so we pull around to jump it, and finally it starts. By this time we are both a little frazzeled, and I have 15 min to get home get hannah ready and get her to school, and of course she is not seeing the urgency of any of this, so she is taking her own sweet time and i am getting more frusterated by the min, so we finally get in the car and I turn to her and say,"hannah please hurry and get your seat belt on." and she looks at me and says, " Mom did you see how pretty the sunrise was when you and Dad were changing the tire?"
And at that moment it all came into perspective, i just sat there looking at her and thought, thank you! thank you for helping me realize that there is so much to be thankful for and so much beauty around us, I was to busy being frazzeled, and to focused on what was going wrong, i failed to notice the small simple beauties of life, I failed to notice the sun rising on this beautiful day, but my heavenly father has blessed me with a precious gift, Hannah is here to remind me of the beauty we can find in every moment of every day! She reminds me to stop and look at all the good instead of focusing on the bad! I am reminded of the quote, Come what may and love it!!!
So tommorrow, I think Hannah and I are going to sit on the porch swing and watch the sunrise! No matter how late we are!

Faith can move mountains.

I was reading in the scriptures today and i was drawn to a certain passage that I read , It said, "if god had commanded me to do all things I could do them. If he should command me that i should say unto this water, be thou earth, it should be earth, and if i should say it, it would be done."
That takes amazing faith.

Faith, it is a subject that has been at the forefront of my mind all week, and as i read this scripture, it all came together.
So I will rewind and tell you what brought this subject to my mind.

Sunday was stake conference, where all the many congregations in our area get together as one and have sunday meetings together and our local and area leaders teach us and instruct us! it happens every six months and it is fabulous.
This particular sunday we had my husbands sisters with us, and as we came into the building they were informed that a young couple in their congregation, had lost their three year old little boy that night to a seizure.
I didn't know this couple, i just knew of them. this was there only child so far and she was expecting another one, it was very sad and i felt very sorry for this couple, I don't know what that is like to lose a child and I hope i never have to find out, but i can only imagine the pain and heartache that would cause.
But as we were sitting there, waiting for the meeting to start, in walks this couple, and I was amazed, they had just lost a child, not even 24 hours before. they had every reason and excuse to not be there. no one expected it, no one even imagined that they would be there. But they were. and that spoke volumes to me, as i am sure it did to any one else who knew.
I watched them and I saw their faith, and their dedication, and it moved me to tears. They had just experienced something so traumatic and devestating, but they knew where they could find comfort and how they could find it, and that was being where the lord wanted them to be.
That day I felt so humbled to watch them, that took faith, that kind of faith i want the kind of faith, that job had, as I sat there i felt they were affirming the words of job, "The Lord giveth and the lord taketh, blessed be the name of the lord."
And it humbled me and made me feel ashamed that I didn't have that kind of faith.
They had the kind of faith that moves mountains, not literal mountains, but the mountains we place in our hearts and in our own lives.
That day their faith moved one of my mountains, and someday I want to have that kind of faith, so maybe i can help someone else move their mountain.