Welcome to Sharing Every Good Gift

This blog is a collection of thoughts, experiences, and feelings from our family members and friends and is meant to bring a little light into each of our days.

Let's face it, you don't have to look far to find the negative in life. It's all around us and sometimes seems to overwhelm us. But we are firm believers that there is more good and positive in the world than the reverse. We intend to do our very best to find it!

We hope you'll join us each day as we take turns sharing what we find. We range in age from six to sixty-six and have a large range of interests and experiences, hopes and dreams, but we all agree that we are here to have joy. And that's what we want to share with you.

Please feel free to send us your comments and questions. We'd love to hear from you!

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Sunny Sunflowers

Josh and I teach a group of 7-8 year old boys. At our last activity, we learned about helpful and unhelpful thoughts. We called helpful thoughts sunny sunflowers and unhelpful thoughts worry weeds. When unhelpful thoughts like, “I can’t do it” or “I’m stupid” or “Nobody likes me” enter your mind, pull them and plant sunny sunflowers! A few of my favorite sunny sunflower thoughts are: “I can do anything I put my mind to”, “I am enough”, “All of my problems have solutions”, “ I am perfect just the way I am”. We planted sunflowers and strawberries in little pots and had pudding dirt cups with Oreos and worms for dessert. It was a lot of fun and such a good lesson to learn! Remember you are loved! You can get through anything, and when things do get hard, ask for help! 😊 “The only tyrant I accept in this world is the ‘still small voice’within.”-Gandhi -S...

It Will All Work Out

Need a little encouragement today? No one seems to say it better than President Gordon B. Hinkley. If you are struggling today I hope this brings a little help. If you are having a great day I hope you'll share this with someone who could use something uplifting and encouraging. -Jessica

A Virus, an Earthquake, and Me

This might be a lengthy post so if you need the short version you can jump to the quotes for the highlights. I went back and forth on whether I should even bother to say anything about all the events but have been happening recently because part of me just doesn't want to hear any more about it ... but the other part of me thought that in a year or two from now I may want to go back and remember what was going on at the time of this post. Ironically what has scared me much more than the coronavirus has been the frantic reaction of a lot of people. There is so much to be frustrated about, irritated over, and downright angry at. HOWEVER... it is also been encouraging to see so many good things and that is what I would like to focus on. I have seen some really creative ideas being shared on how to work with our kids at home and how to keep ourselves sane during a time of isolation. Many have offered free online sources to help us still attempt to enjoy life....

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