"I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny new sports car, wearing beautifully tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails. I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp. I want to be there with grass stains on my shoes from mowing Sister Schenk's lawn. I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbor's children. I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone's garden. I want to be there with cildren's sticky kisses on my cheeks and tears of a friend on my shoulder. I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived."
-Marjorie Pay Hinckley
4 comments:
It is a great quote. I think I read it in the book her daughters did for her....have to check. I was "blessing the house" and got another blessing by taking a break and reading your nice blog.
I'll have to look for the book. Do you happen to remember the title? Is it the one they put together after she died?
That's an amazing quote. Is it okay if I steal it from your blog? It makes a beautiful mantra
Steal away. I didn't say it, so I don't own it. Enjoy!
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