Dear Amie. . .

(Sorry for all of you who are not Amie, but this is good stuff for everyone...)

This is in response to your comment on my blog post. I started to write this as a comment on that same post but didn't know if you'd see it. So I'm putting it here & I think you'll see it sooner. . .

World's Longest Comments are just as wonderful to me as chocolate mint truffles. (Believe me, that means wonderful!) Thanks for your uplifting reminder. Upon receiving the gift, I meant to tell you (well, I was going to write it in the wedding thank you card--to be printed on Monday & sent soon thereafter) that I remember that Pres. Eyring talk WELL from the Piantini chapel in the DR. I fully recognized that it was my last General Conference in the field and I have such an admiration for Pres. Eyring and that talk probably stood out to me most. Not to mention the fact that it promoted journaling so much, which I love anyway.

But I shamefully admit that we have not yet used our "Hand of the Lord" journal yet! That night that I read your message, I remembered & I'm excited! (We'd already kind of started doing it vocally each night, but I'm a much bigger fan of writing & leaving a record.) Plus that ritual is valuable on those nights after long hard days. It is so great to focus on the beauty; the positive; the joy; and the power of a loving Father's role in our lives. "Let the earth break forth into singing. . ." and me too! How wonderful to know the name by which we all can be saved. How wonderful to know exactly what God wants us to do as communicated to us by personal revelation and revelation of his servant, Thomas S. Monson. What a joy to know that because of the role of the atonement, there is HOPE! Hope is a commandment and the more we try to hope, the more hope we'll have! (I know that seems kind of obvious, but it has kind of been an epiphany for me and I just want to share it! Does it make any sense?)

That is all.