Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Quote: "Arriving at the Pearly Gates" (Sis. Hinckley)

(Reposted from the "Daily LDS Quotes" mailing list on LDS.NET...)
January 24, 2012 - Arriving at the Pearly Gates

"I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully, tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails.
 

I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp.
 

I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbors children.
 

I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone's garden.
 

I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and the tears of a friend on my shoulder.
 

I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived."


Marjorie Pay Hinckley

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