"See a need, fill a need . . . "

So what do I need? I need peace that no one or no thing (especially that donut I just ate) is able to fulfill. Don't we all need and/or want that?

In my spare moments, rare as they are, I find myself looking through my books looking at the titles eager to read and think about something other than dishes, diapers, bills and the economy of the nation.

I love books. That's why I am an English major. But, lately I have been looking at my plethora of books and finding no fulfillment in them, nothing that will lift my heart after it has been dashed to pieces. It has been dashed by simply looking at the news. Someone has gotten in a fight with a machete, someone has been brutally beaten, someone has hurt an innocent child . . . the list could go on and on but this site is supposed to uplift not make one feel down trodden.

Though each title looks tantellizing nothing strikes the "gotta read it" cord. So I sit down on my sofa to think and ponder (and maybe sulk a little) then turn to look out my window. Between the couch where I sit and the window is an end table and on that end table are three things: a lamp, an alarm clock, and my scriptures. Ahhh, I can feel the cord ring. I pick it up and read. Only a few minutes go by and I am feeling refreshed and relaxed--well, times up the children call for my undivided attention.