"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
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
I love this quote by Sister Hinckley, she was and still is such a beautiful example of a Mother, Wife and Sister!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful quote! HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!
ReplyDeleteSister Hinckley was a wonderfully humane being. She is greatly missed.
ReplyDeleteI have so much on my plate right now that I needed to happen upon this to remind me of what is important and that I do want to live my life here to the fullest.
ReplyDeleteMy family is getting ready to move to Korea and I am excited but the only thing holding me back is my love for sewing and quilting...but thank goodness the fatquartershop.com will ship or I wouldn't go!
Oh, I just love her!
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I've loved this quote from the first time I heard it. Thanks for sharing it with those who may not have heard it. She's an elect lady for sure.
ReplyDeleteGod bless this lady....
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