I get asked quite often- Why whatever for your blog name?
Here are the two reasons-
1- Simply because my Children said that word a lot while growing up and...
2- Because this is what I believe-
Be the Best of Whatever you are
If you can't be a pine on the top of the hill,
Be a scrub in the valley—but be
The best little scrub by the side of the rill;
Be a bush if you can't be a tree.
If you can't be a highway then just be a trail,
If you can't be the sun be a star;
It isn't by size that you win or you fail—
Be the best of whatever you are!
-Douglas Malloch-
In this world of perfect pinterest parties and events....sometime I think we can get lost and forget that we have something great to offer...something that is just ours, something only we can give.
and that is being the best daughter or son of God that we can be. Finding our strengths and talents and helping them to grow and becoming the best they can be ....maybe not someone Else's best but our best!
"To Be the Best of What I Am": by L.Tom Perry's son
I am the best at what I do
and I do all I can.
I am the best in at least one thing,
When so I think
then so I am.
To serve my fellowman
As President
or plumber
The best way that I can,
Brings to me the greatest joy to stay
Through winds of circumstance
may seldom blow my way.
I remain a servant of God,
an executor of His righteous plan.
To be a child of God
inherently filled with potential
And then to blame whatever fortune may come
on environment
Seems a bit deceitful.
I am a child of God
and this one thing I know:
You, too, are a child of God
not on earth for merely show
For you and I came here to grow.
I am the best at what I do
and I do all I can.
I am the best in at least one thing,
When so I think
then so I am.
I challenge us all this coming new year (me included) to be just a little bit better "you" than you were last year....
Celebrate being different, off the beaten path, a little on the weird side, your own special creation. If you find yourself feeling like a fish out of water, by all means find a new river to swim in. But DO NOT change who you are; BE who you are. Don’t deny yourself, improve yourself
Be the best of whatever you are!
Happy New Year.
We believe in being honest, true, chaste, benevolent, virtuous, and in doing good to all men; indeed, we may say that we follow the admonition of Paul—We believe all things, we hope all things, we have endured many things, and hope to be able to endure all things. If there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things.
