Friday, January 20, 2012

waiting for winter

Don't know about the rest of you
but 
here in Utah
we are just waiting for winter.
I am anxious for these to fall
 so I can put on these
 and build this
 Oh, I know I am one of the few who loves 
a good snow storm or two
throughout the winter months. 
I can't help it I have
Wyoming winters
that run through my veins.
I guess I'll just keep on baking winter
til it gets here, if it gets here.

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

The Triple-Filter Test

I was looking for an inspirational story for
some youth I teach at church.
I found this story and loved it....
The Triple Filter Test
(Author Unknown)
In ancient Greece, Socrates was reputed to hold knowledge in
high esteem.  One day an acquaintance met the great philosopher and
said, "Do you know what I just heard about your friend?"
"Hold on a minute," Socrates replied. "Before you talk to me about
my friend, it might be a good idea to take a moment and filter
what you're going to say. That's why I call the triple filter
test. The first is Truth. Have you made absolutely sure
that what you are about to tell me is true?

"Well, no," the man said, "actually I just heard about it and..."

"All right," Said Socrates.  "So you don't really know if it's true
or not.  Now let's try the second filter, the filter of 
Goodness. Is what you are about to tell me about my friend
something good?"

"Umm, no, on the contrary..."

"So," Socrates continued, "you want to tell me something
bad about my friend, but you're not certain it's true.  You may still pass the test though, because there is one filter left-the filter
of Usefulness.  Is what you want to tell me about my friend
going to be useful to me?"

"No, not really."

"Well," concluded Socrates, "if what you want to tell me is
neither true, nor good, nor even useful, why even tell it to me at all?"


Love this story and time to apply it to my life, wish me luck!


 

Thursday, January 5, 2012

For all of you
bloggers
that felt the need to come up
with a word
for yourselves for 2012, 
I must admit I thought 
the idea was-well- stupid.
But then I realized that was because I didn't
have a word
that I wanted to define what
I wanted out of this year.
But I kept thinking about it.
Nothing fancy for me.
Just one word that I want to tackle
this year and the word is-
drum roll please-
FINISH.
Yep.
Simple.
Silly looking.
Something I don't do a lot of.
I almost clean a room,
I almost get laundry done,
I almost have read my scriptures all the way
through, I almost have many
projects finished,
I have a couple of rooms that
I have started to redo.
My kitchen is almost clean at the end of the day.
Yep, so my word is
Finish.
I want to perfect that word before my
life is finished, so why not start now.
It looks like such a funny word when it is written.
So today I will finish something,
don't know what yet but something!