I am currently reading a book entitled “Contentment: Inspiring Insights for LDS Mothers.”  Though it was written with mothers in mind, it has some great quotes and insight for everyone – I have even thought about asking Clint to read it!  (That’s so not gonna happen!) 

Anyway, here is a quote from Sister Norma Ashton (wife of Marvin J. Ashton) that really stood out to me today that I thought would be nice to share.

“All the Lord asks of us is to be the best we can be with what we have…a copy is never as valuable as the original.  Each of us is an original made by God, and we diminish ourselves and our Maker when we question our worth.”

“People are frightened of themselves. It’s like Freud saying that the best thing is to have no sensation at all, as if we’re supposed to live painlessly and unconsciously in the world. I have a much different view. The ancients are right: the dear old human experience is a singular, difficult, shadowed, brilliant experience that does not resolve into being comfortable in the world. The valley of the shadow is part of that, and you are depriving yourself if you do not experience what humankind has experienced, including doubt and sorrow. We experience pain and difficulty as failure instead of saying, I will pass through this, everyone I have ever admired has passed through this, music has come out of this, literature has come out of it. We should think of our humanity as a privilege.” Marilynne Robinson
(Thanks to Xarissa for sharing her treasures with me.  She has many of them.)

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.” ~ Dr. Seuss