Will You Help Me Spread Word?

I'm starting a school.

In my basement.

  

           

 

 

For tiny persons (about his size).

     

     

There.  I said it!

 

Many of you already know about this little dream of mine.  And most of you know one of my favorite Jeffery R. Holland quotes.  The one about Heavenly Father "eagerly waiting for the chance to answer [our] prayers and fulfill [our] dreams?"  That beautiful reminder that His answers and blessings hinge only upon our willingness to pray and dream and believe?

I love that quote for its own merit, but also because Wes loved it and lived it so well.  We never stopped dreaming and planning together.   The odds of his cancer diagnosis were crushing, of course, but months, weeks even, before his death, we were still discussing hopes and plans for the future. Just in case.  I marvel at the memory of Wes applying and interviewing for jobs even when cancer was robbing him of basic reading abilities.  I reel just a bit when I remember his weakened body working determinedly to build our home.  I wonder sometimes if I should have let him do those things - take those kinds of risks.  But dreams are often risks.  And if Wes and I learned anything from dreaming and planning together we learned these things:

Answers to prayers and fulfillment of dreams can and do come in miraculous ways.  Our marriage was full of examples of that!

We also learned that somehow,  the process - the praying, the dreaming, the believing - somehow that is a kind of answer and fulfillment on its own.  Our dreaming was always accompanied by all the love and encouragement Heaven had to offer - even the dreams that didn't work out the way we wanted or expected.  Surely, God desires our enthusiastic pursuit of worthy dreams.

And so I've been back at the dream drawing board.  Lots of people have been there with me, helping me to build on the insistent little idea that occurred to me one predawn morning a year and a half ago, while I sat, sleepless, next to Wes's warm, deeply slumbering self.

I didn't know then how things would turn out.  I wasn't sure I should pursue it.  It seemed like a risk.  It still, sometimes, seems like a risk.

     

 

But mostly it feels like a dream.

 

Bathed in all the love and encouragement Heaven has to offer.

I would be indebted to you all if you would spread the word to your friends, relatives, grandchildren, mailpersons, etc., so that maybe they could tell their sisters, neighbors, hair-dressers, and so forth, so that perhaps I could get a handful of sweet little students enrolled for the fall.

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Pretty please???

 

“God is eagerly waiting for the chance to answer your prayers and fulfill your dreams, just as he always has. But he can't if you don't pray, and he can't if you don't dream. In short, he can't if you don't believe.” ― Jeffrey R. Holland.

Crossing my fingers, holding my breath, and hoping you all have a wonderful Fourth of July week!  (It will be sparkling with meaning and sentiment 'round these parts!  Thanks for your sweet well wishes!!)

Love, love,

Lori