So to recap the highlights of my delights as of late:
1. I have been spending a lot more time outside to make up for all the time I spend inside and mostly away from windows. Fishing, kayaking and even four-wheeling have been some of those outdoorsy activities and I can't believe how much I have missed them over the past two years. Oh life. Oh sun. Oh Christin singing while we fish--see video below. :) There is just something about being in the middle of a lake by your own power (rowing!) that is so empowering and perspective lending. It is a beautiful blessing and an all around peaceful experience.
2. Speaking of LB, whose name is really Christin (my sister) but whom I call LB, I really delight in her use of the word "mostest." I also delight that she refers to the family dog Ruby as an 'angel puppy' even though Ruby is constantly jumping on her and running away with someone's shoe. Usually mine. I also really delight that at the end of a long day, I can come home to someone who will just give me hugs because that's usually what I just need at the end of everyday.
3. I really delighted in Sunday for a myriad of reasons. Mostly because awesome Sister Anderson aka Katie came up for a visit. We were in the same district in the MTC but she and another Elder went to Australia while the rest of us went to Canada. Meeting back up for church on Sunday though was just like we'd been friends forever and I loved it! I reminisce about my days as a missionary and it was SO nice to have someone to do it with who could really appreciate it. And it just so happened that both the Sunday School and Relief Society lessons were about missionary work. Coincidence? NEVER! Oh happies! Better yet though, Katie and I read through the quotes I had written down from the MTC and we laughed till we almost cried. The BEST!
4. I have been delighting in my job. I'm still in the "I'm new/training stages" of my job, I still love it. I'll just love it more when I get to finally BE an SLP and not have to learn lots and lots of billing/insurance/documentation/safety and fire regulations. It currently hurts my head, and makes me SO grateful for the awesome office staff secretaries--they make it all happen and know SO much!
5. I delight in the unexpected. You just never know what is going to come next and I'm slowly learning to embrace that fact (don't fight it, invite it!). A friend asked me last week how I was dealing with my life changes, particularly a few I had been a bit (or a lot) pessimistic about. I told her I was trying to have a change of heart by changing my attitude. President J (my first mission president) always said "Attitude is Everything." And you know what, he was completely right. Attitude really is everything. It is like an infection because it affects everything you do, everything you think and everything you are. Since we can rarely change our circumstances to be just the way we'd like (or in other words, our idea of perfect), we can find another way to make it through...by changing our attitude. Mind you...I'm still working on this (thank heavens life is a work in progress because I by no means have it all figured out) but I think realizing it, is a step in the right direction. I'm hoping at least.
6. Finally, I'm really delighting in and grateful for hope. Hope of a new tomorrow. Hope of future change. Hope through the knowledge of the Plan of Salvation which truly is THE Plan of Happiness. Hope in the promises the Lord makes to his children. Hope in the ability to act and not just be acted upon. Hope in perspective. Hope in Christ.
This is a little video from LB and I to you. Made in the middle of the lake.
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