2013...As it begins

we are grateful for the love and friendship of family and friends. We know mortality is hard.  Life isn't so much what hardships come our way, its more about how we respond to them.  The peace of the gospel isn't that our burdens disappear, its that we are made equal to them.  Though the difficulties remain, our abilities to overcome them increase.  "May those who love us, love us, and those who don't may the Lord turn their ankles so we will know them by their limping."  (an old Irish proverb I just love).  My favorite quote from a lesson I taught on Sunday, "righteous, faithful gospel living brings confidence, well being and peace, even when it is illogical to have such reassurances".  We wish you all a year of such reassurances as well as faith, hope, trust, health, and prosperity!  HAPPY NEW YEAR!