The Hubs...

Have you ever met the hubs?  If you haven't, you are seriously missing out!  He is truly all that - AND a bag of (BBQ Lays) chips!


He wrote the newsletter message for the bishopric this month in our ward on gratitude.  It was so inspiring to me, and I thought it would be fun to share...I hope he doesn't mind...and if he does, I will try and make it up to him :-) Enjoy!

November.  Family.  Thanksgiving.  Food.  All common thoughts intertwined and seemingly on the forefront of everyone’s minds at this time of year - and how quickly the months speed by bringing these times around year after year.  It seems like once the days become warm, they’ve started to cool off.  Once the grass is finally lush and green, the air is crisp and the leaves are changing colors.  This pattern (the seasons of change) some find to be too cold, too hot, too short, or too long.  So much so, that we often plan trips or extended stays of time in areas that have particularly extended seasons because of their geographic locations. 

How wonderful however, that every year, we are given a chance to be grateful.  Annual it may be, and whether we choose to or not, the above feelings will find us warm or cold, dark or light.  What a wonderful patterned plan Jesus put into action via this creation.  A time, or season, to reflect on all we’ve been blessed with- including those in our lives who have molded us into what we are today.
How many of us committed ourselves to thanking those close or important to us last year?  We might have vowed to write our favorite elementary teacher, slip a note into our children’s lunchboxes, or address our spouse through an appreciative love letter, but put off the gratitude of this yesterday’s blessings, because of the anxieties and problems we experience today?

President Monson addressed those feelings saying, “Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved. Friends move away, children grow up, loved ones pass on. It’s so easy to take others for granted, until that day when they’re gone from our lives and we are left with feelings of “what if” and “if only.” Said author Harriet Beecher Stowe, “The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.”

“Stresses in our lives come regardless of our circumstances. We must deal with them the best we can. But we should not let them get in the way of what is most important—and what is most important almost always involves the people around us. Often we assume that they must know how much we love them. But we should never assume; we should let them know. Wrote William Shakespeare, “They do not love that do not show their love.”  We will never regret the kind words spoken or the affection shown. Rather, our regrets will come if such things are omitted from our relationships with those who mean the most to us” Thomas S. Monson, “Finding Joy in the Journey,” Ensign, Nov 2008, 84–87.

Brothers and Sisters, may we follow President Monson’s admonishment and do our very best to search out those we love and thank them today, not tomorrow, for their love and role in our lives.  Let us take control of today, and as our Savior said, “...fear not, let your hearts be comforted; yea, rejoice evermore, and in everything give thanks.” 
DC 98:1

Awesome, I know!


Post #33 - Give Thanks!