Heaven on Earth

Heaven on Earth

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Couldn't Have Said It Better!

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 some one'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


I borrowed this quote by Marjorie Pay Hinckley from my friend Kerin's blog (and Marjorie Pay Hinckley, of course).  I have never heard this one before.  Don't you just love this?  Those are words to live by.

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bBy the way...you should jump on over and visit Kerin's Blog.  It's great!

6 comments:

  1. Thank you Bonnie.
    You are such a kind soul.
    I consider myself lucky to have a friend, such as you :)

    (Marjorie was a relative to me.. my grandpa's cousin; my maiden name was Pay.
    She and her sweet husband have always had a special place in my heart.
    And, we kinda have the same fluffy cheeks~~LOL!..a Pay trait, through and through).

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  2. Loved this. It's absolutely refreshing-and also a good reminder.

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  3. I remember reading this one and saying yes, this woman knows what life is really about. She was an amazing woman. Joni

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  4. I've always liked this quote:) Thanks for the reminder.

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