weather happy or sad

this beautiful snow ...

created happiness for me and 

my family this weekend

malcolm and i watched our children play in it

(even the 18 year old college student) 

we snuggled together

we had root beer floats during the storm

we watched movies 

and wondered if the power would go out

we marveled as it came out of the sky

it never seemed to stop 

this same snow fall 

changed someone's life this weekend

i met this man once

my husband's boss 

his high school kids were out together 

brother and sister

they had a car accident

he lost his son

how sad i am for his loss 

how grateful i am for my children

how confused i am...

that while i have joy, others have sorrow

“Thou shalt live together in love, insomuch that thou shalt weep for the loss of them that die.”

(D&C; 42:45.)

Moreover, we can’t fully appreciate joyful reunions later without  tearful separations now. 

The only way to take sorrow out of death

is to  take love out of life.

(Elder Russell M. Nelson) 

“Ye must press forward with a steadfastness in Christ, having a perfect  brightness of hope, and a love of God and of all men. Wherefore, if ye  shall press forward, feasting upon the word of Christ, and endure to the  end, behold, thus saith the Father: Ye shall have eternal life.”

(2 Ne.31:20; John 17:3.)

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