tender mercies/favorite things

Some of my favorite things:
Looking out my bedroom window when the moon is bright. Feeling the brightness in the darkness. Seeing our beautiful palm trees that I like picking through. Loving that we have a pool and use it. Seeing green grass although it's neglected and gets played on not so gently. I like looking out of my 2 story window and loving it lit up.

When the Les Mis medly comes on at work, or a hymn plays at work.

Eating a frosty thin pepperoni off of a frozen pizza while the convection oven pre-heats.

Finding more connections when I'm thinking about something.
My latest was when I was asked to give a spiritual thought for ward council and was thinking that I could keep it short like the verse, "O be wise. What can I say more?" But since we were asked to do many weekends of Hurricaine Michael clean up, I figured I could use the Mosia 2:17 verse which was about service. And it talked about being wise in the beginning too! And that reminded me that the email about going to serve said we should use common sense. So yea. Be wise. Serve and don't be dumb. Full circle.

Those are a few of my secret happy things for which I'm thankful that I've probably not before shared. Happy November!

Last Sunday, Sister Maribet Martin mentioned a Bednar talk on tender mercies not being coincidences and I have already believed that so listened to that talk and it made me happy like I figured it would.

(And I know I could go back and make sure I didn't end on a proposition or be redundant but I'm writing this quickly.)