Tuesday, March 6, 2012

The word that comes to mind is....

...ENCIRCLED...

I feel like maybe this word has been overused.  But then when referring to the goodness, and the love, and the kindness that has been shown, it is how we have all felt.

Encircled in the arms of His love.  And I know it has been said before, but we will forever be grateful.  The bake sale this weekend was just one more way that you have all been "His" arms.

We wish we could thank each and every one of you.  Thank you for coming and feeling the love and adding to the amazing spirit that each and everyone felt that day.


Thank you to the sweet sign makers who then braved the EVER so COLD weather and waved those signs so energetically and willingly and brought in the multitudes!!  YOU ROCK!!

As cold as it makes me feel every time I look at these pictures, the smile on my face warms me so much because - more than the cold, I see love.  The kind that we are here on earth to share with each other.  And you all shared it!!
Just makes my heart happy!!

Thank you to Madeline for giving us all a reason to come together again and show support and LOVE!

"...when ye are in the service of your fellow beings ye are only in the service of your God."
                                                                                                                                                        ~Mosiah 2:17

And just a few more thank you(s)!!  
If you liked what you bought on Saturday and would like more of the same, click on the logo to be linked to each website.








And also a shout out to the most amazing American Preparatory Academy.  THANK YOU!!  If only all the youth in our world could possess the qualities that these youth have!!  
FELL the LOVE!


1 comment:

Sara Jolley Christensen (cousin on the Burt side) said...

Lawrence and Melissa, I have thought long and hard as to what I could say to you both that would comfort and support you through your terrible loss of your angel girl! However, I have found added strength in my own healing after our angel AnnaLaura's loss, and I am truly amazed at your strength, your faith, and your endurance! You are truly an inspiration! I couldn't begin to tell you what you need to hear because you have already recieved that wonderful council! Uncle Cyril and Aunt Maxine have passed it already in the poems that you shared last month. That is the Plan of Salvation that was set forth by our Father in Heaven. Our angel girls are there working in His kingdom and waiting for the day that we can all be together again. Lawrence, Melissa, if my Mom, your Aunt Ossie, were to be here still, she would most certainly put her arms around you and tell you it was all going to be okay because you came from strong stock. It's true! We all come from wonderful families, full of faith and love. Hang on to that always. I am so very thankful for the knowledge that we have through the gospel of Jesus Christ, for the Plan of Salvation, and the Plan of Happiness that was laid out before we came to this life. As for my only memory of your darling little Ethne; I remember meeting her just one time. She was just about 3 or 4 months old and I can't even remember why we were all together, but all I can remember is saying how beautiful she was and what an "old spirit" she had shining out of those beautiful eyes! You two were so very proud to be showing her off!! It brought joy to my soul to see how very happy you were and would always be with that valiant little spirit as a part of your eternal family. I mentioned the red heair and you both just laughed and said "Yeah, not to sure where that came from!" Well it indeed came from heaven as did she! Thank you again for your wonderful spirits and for the opportunity of knowing your little Ethne, even if only for a few short minutes! My love and prayers are with you for continued heaaling both physically Melissa, as well as emotionally for you both. You are continually in my prayers. All my love, Sara

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