Playlists

What are your top favorite songs you listen to?

I've been noticing things on facebook.  You can see when people are starting a new relationship, and they start posting all of these music videos or songs or whatever about how happy they are.  The same goes for people breaking up.  I bet "Need You Now" by Lady Antebellum is the top song posted.  I've seen it so many times!  Some people post it on their profile with the whole thought, that they hope so and so actually sees it, or there's the sending it in a personal message.  I've actually been the recipient of those, and each time have been touched by it.  I'm more the post and hope someone sees sort of thing.  Then, a lot of the time, I just love a song and post it, and then after a few hours, it hits me that someone might read into it, and I worry about that.  

Well, I've been playing around on Spotify.  I have some favorites that have been long-time favorites, then there are new ones.  I love the power of music!  It can calm you, it can trigger deep memories that are fun or sad or dear to you.  It's funny how some songs I relate to someone, and they would have no idea that that song relates to them, but all these memories flood into my mind about them.  I love how some people leave an imprint on your life, it may have been just a short time of you knowing them, but they've impacted you.

I love how music can re-energize you!  I remember driving to work in Park City, which I absolutely hated that job, turning up Kelly Clarkson's second CD, and playing it really loud, REALLY!  It totally made things better.  Dealing with my crazy boss at SFD, Miranda Lambert's Kerosene, was my ringtone for her.  Music is funny!

So, my top five songs right now are (in no particular order :)):

1.  Gentle Savior- Daniel Beck
2.  Over It- Katharine McPhee
3.  Sure Be Cool if You Did- Blake Shelton
4.  Phonebooth (edited version)- Maroon 5
5.  Wanted You More- Lady Antebellum and One of Those Nights- Tim McGraw

Smile and enjoy your music!

Today was a break through day for me.  I've been feeling like I've been in this fog for a long time! Granted I've been on a lot of cold medicine periodically through this time, and even non-drowsy makes me feel groggy for hours after the medicine has stopped working on the symptoms.  So there have been a lot of things along the way that have hindered my progression out of the fog.  Today I was talking on the phone to my aunt, and she asked how I was, and said my normal response, "I'm good."  Then I kind of giggled, because I realized that I really was good.  I maybe could've said I was even great!  I don't know that the whole of the fog is completely better, but for today I'm so WAY better, I can't believe it!  I found this today, and love it!

What Happens When Life Gets One Degree Colder?

I was talking to my mom today, and she'd just listened to a devotional in KBYU 89.1 at 11:00, while she was working on some things in her office, and said it was amazing!  I looked it up, and read it, and I have to say, I was so touched!  You can find it here. 

I loved it!  There were so many great points!  There was a quote in there by Joseph Smith, Jr. that stuck out to me for a funny reason. 

"Hope and courage have always characterized the righteous. Ever the optimist, 
Joseph Smith was once quoted as saying:

I should never get discouraged, whatever difficulties should surround me, if I was sunk 
in the lowest pit of Nova Scotia and all the Rocky Mountains piled on top of me, I ought not to be discouraged but hang on, exercise faith and 
keep up good courage and I should come out on the top of the heap.^7"

 

Optimism, hope and courage are all characteristics I try to have, although, I admit I've not been the best at some of these.  There's always room to improve, right?!

 

So, one of the reasons I loved this is because it says Nova Scotia!  My dad loved to say Nova Scotia.  Whenever we'd ask him where we were going, he'd always say Nova Scotia.  So funny!  I don't know why he picked Nova Scotia, but it was a common name in our household.  Someday, I hope to be able to ask him!

 

Really, though, anyone struggling with anything should read that talk!

Four years ago, yesterday, I went through the Mt. Timpanogos temple for my first time.  I'm so grateful that I decided to go through the temple.  It has been such a blessing to me!


I had been shopping for some young women things at the distribution center, and overheard a bunch of missionaries showing each other the pictures of the temples that they received their endowments in.  While I was observing this, I was like, "I want to do that."  The thought had come when I was younger, I wanted to be able to be there when Collin got married, but it just didn't seem right.  However, in that distribution center, I knew it was time.  I went to the church that night to drop some stuff off for one of my primary kids, and just stopped into the bishop's office to see what I needed to do to get ready to go to the temple.  Fifteen minutes later, I had a temple recommend and was told the next temple prep. class wasn't going to start for a while, and he thought I should just go.  So, three weeks later I went through this temple.  It was a great experience!  It was wonderful to have so many of my family and friends there.


I've seen so many blessings in my life, and in the lives of those I know and love, because of the temple.

(I hope that Steven and Seja don't mind me posting this)

This little girl's parents found out while they were expecting her, that she had a heart defect.  Their names were put on the temple prayer rolls in many temples, and one day as I was walking out of the temple, I got a text from Seja saying that they had just met with the specialist, and that she was totally fine.  She's a happy, healthy wonderful little girl! 

The power of the temple and the power of prayer are such amazing gifts!