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.

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!

 

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!