{"id":178,"date":"2008-06-05T22:43:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-06T05:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.studiocharm.com\/?p=178"},"modified":"2008-06-05T22:43:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-06T05:43:00","slug":"a-great-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.studiocharm.com\/?p=178","title":{"rendered":"A Great Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"

A good friend of mine sent me this quote recently. I just love it- and I love the author, Marjorie Pay Hinckley:<\/p>\n

“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. <\/span> I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp. <\/span> I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbors children. <\/span> I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone’s garden. <\/span> I want to be there with children’s sticky kisses on my cheeks and the tears of a friend on my shoulder. <\/span> I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived.” <\/span><\/p>\n

Isn’t that great? For me it is so visual, and I can especially relate to the part about being covered with grime.<\/p>\n

For our weekly photo news and updates . . . I have a TON of photos to process, SO MANY to blog about, and we are on the mend from a sick spell at our home. In fact, I began the day with my little M. getting “sick” on me at 5:00 a.m. Soooo- as soon as I am able, I will get everything done (in order, right?) and it will be lovely. The fairy canvases turned out amazingly well- I am so excited about what will come next with these designs. Photos of the installation and exciting business updates on the way.<\/p>\n

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