RED,WHITE AND BLUE

     What a beautiful and breathtaking display it was on JULY 4TH, 2013!  My husband and I found an amazing park to head up to where you can see the whole Utah County Valley.  As the beautiful sun set over the western mountains the night sky lighted up!!!!!


     What a colorful display of fireworks.  One right after the other one and not to mention the delayed booms that followed. I loved hearing the cheers from the young and old.  The smiles that shown on all their faces.  I wondered what it would have been like to be in space or flying on a plane and seeing how WE, the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, CELEBRATE, the great birth of our FREE NATION in each of our hearts.

     My husband and I couldn't help ourselves, we started singing and humming to so many of our favorite patriotic songs.  No we didn't get up and sing in public ha ha.  But with tear filled eyes and a heart that was ready to burst with LOVE and GRATITUDE to our forefathers who made all this possible with the very God of our great nation by their sides.  I thought about all the men and women who so boldly continue to protect each and everyone of our freedoms and uphold what those past have worked so hard to create.

     It is my prayer that WE NEVER FORGET, WHAT THE RED, WHITE AND BLUE FLAG MEANS.......  That WE ALL CHOOSE TO NEVER FORGET THE GOD WHO MADE THIS GREAT NATION AND THE FOUNDING FATHERS AND THOSE WHO VALIANTLY STRIVE EACH DAY, EVEN WILLING IF NECESSARY TO GIVE THEIR OWN LIVES TO KEEP US FREE AND UNITED AS "ONE".

     On the positive side of life I'M PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN!!!!!

BORN TO SUCCEED!!!!!!!!

     I am sure you have all heard the story of the UGLY DUCKLING right?  What great lessons we can learn from this story about succeeding in life. I mean here is this poor little duckling newly hatched and already it is told just how ugly and different it is.  How it doesn't fit in and never will.  How it is shuned and left alone.  Does any of this ring a bell in our own lives at times?  How many times do we feel like a failure an outcast.  Sometimes as little children we don't even realize that we are different until someone points it out to us that they think we are.
     I hope with all my heart that WE ALL skip to the END of the UGLY DUCKLING story where he finds out that ALL the things he ever THOUGHT or were TOLD to him WEREN'T TRUE!!!!!!!!  That he did matter and even found out how AMAZING AND TOP NOTCH HE REALLY WAS.  HE WAS A SWAN, THE MOST BEAUTIFUL AND GRACEFUL OF THEM ALL.......
     When we look at others, let us ALL look at them as if they have something wonderful about them to succeed in life......

     I mean just think, WHAT IF??????, ON THE POSITIVE SIDE!!!!!