"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 helpingto weed someone's garden.I want to be there with the children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and the tears of a friend on my shoulder. I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived."
Marjorie Pay Hinckley
(p.s. Thanks for posting Sanae..I needed to hear this:)
6 comments:
I love this too! Thanks for posting it!
So good.
All about perspective. LOVE THIS!!
I absolutely love this!
I don't have an infant or a toddler, but I still need to read this every so often, and than I feel like, "yah, that is right!! I love being rough and tough with my buddy sister Hinkley!!" Welcome to the club!!
I love that! I think i need to put that up on my wall :)
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