attitude of gratitude?...

Sometimes it's hard to remember that there is so much to be grateful for.  Life takes over, the adversary pokes at your heart, chaos ensues or one wrong word punches you in the gut.  This life action is all to familiar for everyone...yes, everyone.  So, "whatever is there to be grateful for?!!?" Oh, so very much!

I'm having a rough go at life, not gonna lie.  But, I'm sick and tired of complaining and sulking.  In the spirit of Christmas I've decided to pump up my feel goods, be grateful and smile.  My life is a blessed one.  It's full of family, love, laughter and goodness.  I have a testimony that my Father in Heaven loves me...should that not be enough?  Sadly, sometimes I forget that it IS enough.

President Thomas Monson once gave a talk called "Attitude of Gratitude" and, as usual, it was phenomenal.  So, I'm taking his quote 'have an attitude of gratitude' and applying to my christams week.  I am grateful for small moments of creativity and wonder.  For example: finding out that 2 shots of peppermint syrup are so delightful in a regular hot chocolate; my husband stomping out, in the fresh fallen snow, a message "I love LP"; gathering and delivering small and silly gifts for my neighbor family; substituting the Sunbeam class.  I will be searching for more small moments of wonder during the week.  I know I will find many.

He loves me.
He must...it was 11 degrees outside when he did this!

I am grateful.  I will strive to be grateful.  I can't miss out on the blessings.

Keep your sunny side up!
Lisa Lucille

i'm worth a million bucks!

When you start seeing your worth,

you'll find it harder to stay around people who don't.

have you ever seen a happier picture?

I'm worth $1,143,000.00.  An online quiz told me so.  I was also informed that your worth does not increase if you donate to charity or have any skills in education or art.  So, being worth over one million dollars isn't that great.  My biggest money earner was my age...really?  With age comes wisdom?

In reality I am, and you are, of infinite worth!  How our DNA fits together in creating our physical bodies, matters not...it's the worth of our soul that holds the most value!  Scripture tells us that "the worth of souls is great in the sight of God." Our souls were divinely and intimately made by the very master of the universe.  The same God that created the heavens also crafted your precious soul.  So, I think, it's safe to say that our souls shine brighter than the stars and radiate more beams than the sun.  Overstated?  I don't even think so!

My advice is to invest well.  Take your "worth" and invest it into everything that empowers you.  Your value will ever increase.  I will strive to do the same.  We are all in this together, so let's notice the more lovely things about one another and encourage one another.  After all, your worth will rise when you rise to encourage, love and support another!  

Keep your sunny side up!

Lisa Lucille :]