I have a new favorite quote. It was given by one of my heroes, Marjorie Pay Hinckley:“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 grass stains on my shoes from mowing Sister Schenk’s lawn. I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbor’s 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.”
Love it, love it, love it! I ran across this the other night and loved it so much that it is now hanging on my desk, along with the question "What Would Marjorie Do?" Hopefully it will help me to not be ornery during the work week :) No promises though.
1 comment:
well dang it.. if I had read this earlier, I probably wouldn't have said to my co worker what I said...but I didn't and I said... Dang...I really must think about what Marg would have done..and Jesus, because, they are nice and I am not
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