there is hope

 So I have set a goal to become a healthy grandma. I never want to be one that wishes she felt like walking on the stairs or down a hill. Some of my favorite memories as a child is no matter how many times we wanted to see the pigs and cows Grandpa Scott would walk us down the hill to the barn to see the animals. I want my grand kids to have the same memories. I have started to walk last week. I walked on Thurs, Fri, and I have set a goal of walking 3 times a week and watch what I am eating. We all know  the diets and how and how they work. But this morning I was walking and thinking about the water issues in Indiana. So if you look at our grass it is brown and pretty much everything is drying out. But as I walked I noticed little bits of green. The green is fighting to stay alive and it is against all odds. I wonder if that is how my spirit feels at times. We know if we can hold on that we can stay"green" when the odds are against us. I see all the brown and dried out things in this world right now with the attack on our families and how we are trying to remove God from the world and I hope I continue to be one of the strands that fights to stay close to the spirit against all odds. I know that God lives and their is "green" in our lives even when there is so much brown around us.......

Miracles

  once again my sister wrote a beautiful post. I believe in miracles. In the webster dictionary

 mir·a·cle/ˈmirikəl/

Noun:

A surprising and welcome event that is not explicable by natural or scientific laws and is considered to be divine. A highly improbable or extraordinary event, development, or accomplishment

 I have been witness to many miracles in my life. Have you witness miracles?  I believe that if we take the time each one of us is able to say this. I know that I sometimes I have to remind myself that miracles did not only take place during Jesus's time but it takes place daily in each of our lives if we are allowing ourselves to see and understand that. One of my biggest faults is in my thinking that everyone else deserves miracles, grace, and mercy except me. This has always been a battle for me personally. I know in the past when I have had good things i find a way to not make it good. I know with a better understanding of the Atonement and how it is applied to my life I have come to understand that I am worthy of these things also.
Miracles in my life:  Cindy and Tina (sisters), each of my sons ( three of the greatest things that has ever happened to me)
another miracle in my life is that I am still here.. I have now been clean since 1998 and not a day goes by that I do not thank my Heavenly Father for that. I do not deserve to be here, I lived a dangerous life and I know this. I lived a life that I should be dead or be killed.  I tried to forget Heavenly Father and my family. But I believe Heavenly Father absolutely refused to give on me. Even after I got clean I led a life where I no longer did drugs but I was not clean. It took my purse getting stolen in a bank (miracle) for me to decide that I am better person by being active in church. I need that daily reminder of Heavenly Father and what he is does for me each day. I love that he thought I deserved to be given 7x70 chances of forgiveness. I know he knows me so personally and by name that he realizes that I need daily miracles in my life.

I have attached the story that my sister had on her blog. I sat here on a Tuesday morning and read this and cried. I cried for the families who lost someone. All because they went to see the movie. I cried for this family and the mother. I cried for the doctors who witness a miracle. I cried for all the untold stories that will never be told. I cried because I read a miracle and was able to see it.  

Please take a few minutes to read this post by Brad Strait:  A Miracle Inside the Aurora Shooting

Even though I have already said my morning prayer I think I will go thank my Heavenly Father for the miracles in my life and others. I feel very grateful this morning how about you?

Love Joyce

Gage

On Thurday I went to the doctor with Kevin (son) and Gage. He weigh 21.4 pounds and 29 1/4 inches long. He is in the 95%tile for his weight and height. Gage is amazing and he is fun. I love this little boy. Kevin (husband) is wonderful with him...

He loved Pizza with Pa
Great Pa (Burney Scott which
is my dad!!)

He enjoyed hs sippy cup and he really enjoyed it for his first time.....

 Gage is scooting and he is trying to jabber. He sleeps with no blankets but loves his daddy's tshirt..

be kind

I just read the cutest blog that gave me a sweet reminder: 

About a year ago, I sent my husband a list of things that I thought that he might like to see me do around the house.  I asked him to put the list according to priority, from greatest to least.

Here is the exact list that I sent to him:

 -clean, ironed laundry

-yummy meals including lunches

-fresh, homemade bread for your sandwiches

-keeping up with emails

-thank you notes

- outreach in the community

-hospitality/ having people over

- making sure there are cookies or something yummy for you when you get home (including tea)

-a clean, picked up house

 And, this was his exact response:

“Thanks, but I would rather have you put aside anything/everything you have to do in order to start each day with the assumption that I LOVE YOU, and therefore anything I do or say is given the benefit of the doubt that I LOVE YOU.

 Get enough rest and say no to enough activities so that you have the energy to be NICE TO ME (and the kids) when I’m home.

 Honestly, I appreciate the rest of it, but don’t really care that much if it comes at the expense of the first two things up at the top of the list.  Maybe you think that I think you’re a bad wife or mom if you don’t do this stuff. If so, that is wrong. I would much rather have a messy house, make my own lunches from white, store-bought bread, have no snacks, etc. etc., but have a nice, happy wife who likes me, than the other way around.

 So, to sum it all up, showing me you love me has more to do with WHO you are than what you do!  It’s my best friend I fell in love with and want to hang out with, not my maid!”

I have not been a very nice person earlier this week...This reminded me that I needed to be kindness at the top of my list. I needed to make sure that I was kind to the great and wonderful people in my house. 

 I am sorry!!

Love you all Joyce

tender hearted today

• • • After reading my sister's post about her youngest son, Ryan. Ryan was taken to the emergency room last night. His ears were bleeding. As a mother I can not imagine what that sight must of look like. To know that he was in pain and he has no way to let you know before there is a visible sign of it. Ryan will be 4 in a few weeks. He is amazing little boy and he is loved by his family like crazy. Below I have copied Tina's post about a doctor who probably was just being himself and did not ever realized what a difference he made to a little boy and his mom. 

       

       

       The dr who examined him was so gentle. It was sweet. While he was examining Ryan's ears, I held Ryan's hands so that he wouldn't cause the dr to push the instruments too far into his ears. Then I just continued to hold his hands for comfort. When the dr started to examine his abdomen, Ryan insisted on letting go of my hands ... I was obviously holding for my comfort, too ... and took hold of the dr's hand. The dr stopped his examination and held Ryan's hand for a moment and just talked to Ryan. It was SO sweet. I appreciated his extra tenderness. Then when the Dr. was leaving, Ryan wanted to sit up. So I sat him up and when the dr said good bye, Ryan waved good bye to him. That always takes a minute, but the dr waited and saw his little hand wave good bye. It was really precious!!

       

      

       I often think of Ryan when things are hard for me because to me he is amazing. To think he agree to come to earth and know that he would have to work hard to have everything. I love him, I think his parents are amazing. His daddy loves him and Ryan loves to hear Dwight's voice when he walks into the home. His mom is patient and always has the faith to help Ryan. His siblings thinks the world  of him...

       

time is going by fast...

Today at church we had a lesson on when we die and we are met by Heavenly Father will he tell us that we have done a good job. I often think of the scriptures Mark 12:30, 31

 30 And thou shalt ^alove the Lord thy God with all thy ^bheart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy ^cstrength: this is the first commandment.

 31 And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.

I think when we meet our Heavenly Father these will be his first two questions. First being Did you love me with everything (soul, mind, and strength)? If you are able to say yes then in my opinion there is no need for the second question  Did you love the neighbor as thy self?

Through out my life we have had great neighbors. Growing up we moved into an area that was made up of all old people. My parents got to know these people. They watched out for us girls when my parents were working. Tina was so good, when she would get home in the evenings from school she would go visit each one to see if they were doing good. We Dorothy on one side and on the other side we had the reeves. Then two houses down we had Ruby. I am sure they were not as old as I remember. But I am grateful for parent s who taught me to love our neighbors. What will my answer be to this question on my meeting with God? I am working toward saying yes!! How about you...

Mansions

Yesterday was Cindy (Sunshine) Scott's birthday she is my sister and she was born July 5, 1966. She had Cystic Fibrosis and the life expectancy was 1 year at that time. In 2012 the life expectancy is 37 years, maybe in my life time we will see the miracle of a cure.  After posting pictures on facebook Tina offered to introduce anyone to Cindy in heaven that did not know her.

So my first thought: Lets make a plan to meet in heaven.  
 John 14 

1 Let not your heart be ^atroubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.

 2 In my Father’s ^ahouse are many ^bmansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will ^acome again, and receive you unto myself; that ^bwhere ^cI am, there ye may be also.

  My mansion will be the one with all the pink roses and flowers 

around it. Do you have your mansion picked out?

     Friends, Lets Plan to meet in the middle of the beautiful
mansions?  Some I will have the chance to see again here and others I will have to plan to meet
in heaven, Just know when I am leaving this earth I will be there waiting for you!!
God be with you till we meet again.