"I REALLY LIVED""I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny 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 Schenks 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 weed someone's garden. I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and the tears of a friend on my shoulder. I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived."
By "Marjorie Hinckley
4 comments:
I love that too! I was excited to see you put a picture on all by yourself. And, your music sounds great!!
I love that quote-- it really puts things in perspective!
Great quote! She was an amazing lady.
Actually, that quote isn't attributable to Sister Hinckley. It is a quote from Linda Bentley Johnson given in a talk at the 1997 BYU Women's Conference called Steak and Spam Service.
http://deseretbook.com/mormon-life/news/story?story_id=6999
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