Music and Lyrics

Hey Y'all, Well, we had a great week down in Las Vegas(no, I did NOT get married) and the family has another memory to add to our ever-growing treasure chest of great times, this time with more little ones and another in-law. Fun times, right? Obviously we went to see the Bellagio Fountains, right before hitting up Cesar's Palace. That, my friends, is a city inside a hotel. However, it is a marketplace city, which I don't like very much. Oh well, the view was beautiful with a sky-lit ceiling that actually had a similarity to the sky. Now, I have to ask a question. How many of you have ever had a day/week/month/year when every song you listen to seems applicable to your life? What I mean is this: this week as each and every song I've listened to(which is well over a 1000 songs) has the tendency to put me in the singer's shoes and I feel as though I'm singing about my life in that moment. Every song from Taylor Swift's last pop hit to the sweetest hymn...

Hey yall, Dale is really forgetful if you haven't noticed already. You remember how he wrote about 3 weeks ago about having an eternal perspective. Yeah, for about 2 and half of the last 3 weeks he hasn't had that perspective. He's such a hypocrite, right? So, in an attempt to help him remember and to write down what he's learned, we are going to review the idea. With some repairs to the phrasing and mentality. So, having an eternal perspective is not just having the view that we have all kinds of time in the world because we're going to have forever to perfect ourselves like our Heavenly Father. Looking on the past couple of weeks, there has not been much progression. Why? Because we were thinking like that. However, it really should be more like this: this of what you've done in the past, fix it. When you mess up, think of how much time you took to fix it and try to improve on the time it took or the quality of job you did in fixing it. For example, goin...

Hey Yall, Our Heavenly Father is pretty smart. In case you didn't already know. He's created all kinds of worlds and knows all the processes of nature inside and out. Today we'll try to understand this new epiphany I had while watching a man shovel snow. While watching this man shovel snow, I thought, ''Huh, God never seems to care where the snow is. He doesn't move the snow around with shovels and snowplows. He knows exactly where it falls, where it stays and what happens to it later on.'' This made me think of how man tries to move everything to have things his way. We store things, we throw things away, we shovel snow out of the way; but we never seem to care where it ends and where it starts. I thought about how the snow will eventually go away because that's how God planned it. It may be annoying at times, but it can also be fun while it's around. We can learn to enjoy it or move it out of the way. Everything has a place for now, every...

Hey Yall, This week I've learned that I love working where I work. Where do I work? Western Nut Company. What do I do? I work with Boxes. Lots and lots of Boxes. I pack boxes. I unpack boxes. Load boxes, unload boxes, move boxes, make boxes, brake boxes, etc. I love boxes. Did I mention I count boxes too? Haha, no. It's not exactly that all the time. We also prepare the stations of nuts that go out to stores for the holiday season, drive trucks, count products and even do some shipping. My Boss is pretty awesome. He gets stressed, but he's still a great guy who really knows how to say what he wants you to understand. :) He sometimes doesn't understand what you're trying to say, but it's just important that the job gets done. I also work with a guy who is always trying to set me up on dates. He's a funny guy who personally declares himself evil. Why, I don't know. The best part about work? I feel like I'm part of the crew. We come from so many ...