"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 a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbors 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 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."
Marjorie Pay Hinckley
7 comments:
One of my favorites! Thanks for the reminder!!
wow. never heard this one before, how have i missed it? brought tears to my eyes. thanks.
i love it. thanks for sharing...everyone needs to hear stuff like this every so often!
beautifully said!!! LOVE YOU
Thanks for that!
I had forgotten about that quote, but it is one of my favorites. Sorry missy, but I am so stealing that! ;)
I love that quote. It gives me such a good feeling. I want to be like that, too.
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