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Jeff: What about me?
Do you love me more than cats?
Megan: I love you
more than cats unless they are cats
that follow me, are playful, and don’t
scratch.
Jeff: That’s an imaginary cat.
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Megan: Mom, do you ever wish you could wish for
something and it would come true?
Me: Sure!
Megan: I would wish for
you to have peace and strength.
Me: Oh I love that. Hmmm...I would wish for a healthy body.
Megan: (a bit frustrated) But, I’ve
been praying for you to have ‘peace and strength’ for like, 3
years!
Me: (pause) Heavenly Father has
heard all of your prayers. Sometimes prayers are
answered in ways we don’t expect, because I do have ‘strength’, but it comes
through help from others, and I do feel peace at some point every day.
And then she started talking about cats or dragons. Or maybe it was cat-dragons.
And then she started talking about cats or dragons. Or maybe it was cat-dragons.
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We all have our own ‘something.’
Some days it is incredibly difficult to be at peace when I
still really really really want a healthy body.
To move on I have to
want to be at peace. Every
day I have to choose to
be at peace all over again.
I then am willing to reconcile my emotions, and my wants,
with the realities of my ‘something.’ It's about finding a balance.
I want my children to see that, despite the lack of muscles, I am strong in other ways and that I am happy and still love life.
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| In the Uintahs last summer. |
