Tuesday, October 11, 2011

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 a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbors children. I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone’s garden. I want to be there with 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

3 comments:

  1. LOVE this quote! Only I would add a chocolate smudge on the corner of my mouth to show that I enjoyed the simple moments... :)

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  2. Hahah Shannon! Yesterday I had french vanilla hot cocoa and today I had chocolate graham hot cocoa and thought of you :)

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  3. Chocolate graham? Oh, swoon - for yumminess!

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