Show A Little Kindness: 4 friends

Saturday, September 6, 2014

4 friends

It is our tradition to get together at the end of summer. We've been doing it for years. How wonderful it is to be with good friends. As Faith, I and Denise approach 50 years old this year, we marvel at how long we have been friends. We met when we were 12, a lifetime ago.

This year we went to Janine's home in Springville. We were treated to a delicious salad and bread outdoors with everything so special. Then the dessert was served and it was the best!! Mini frozen desserts in small half pint canning jars. As she pulled them out of the freezer to serve them to us her smile was priceless.

Man, they were good.

" The only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. You either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache. "

" I don't want to drive up 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