Simple Sets the Path

I've taken alot of time to ponder as to what to write and I hope to be able to say what I need to say. My Thanksgiving turned out much different than I had expected and things continued to go dowwnnn. I really wanted to invite people for dinner because it was going to be so fancy and my family definitely don't care all that much. By the day before I realized I wouldn't be able to invite a homeless person or a elderly person and got pretty bummed out. But I still persisted in inviting people who might be alone on Thanksgiving. Even on Thanksgiving day we continued to invite people. Not a single person could come. My spirits were so low and any hope I had of making Thanksgiving great was gone. There was alot of tension in our home and an hour before dinner was ready I gave up and went crying to my room. The food I was most excited for I didn't make, the stuffing I spend hours on got ruined and I just didn't care anymore. I spent the afternoon in my room talking to an inspiring friend on the phone, reading my scriptures and I sung every hymn out of the hymn book that I knew. Of course the feelings were alot deeper than about a ruined dinner and not being able to have someone over but none the less I got through it. My dad finished dinner and we all sat down to eat, then everyone discovered the notes I had written the day before on the name tags at the table. My goal of writing thank you notes I had accomplished and it ended up being a Thanksgiving miracle. I had written everyone in my family a thank you note and then in return, while sitting at the table, they all passed around my blank name card and wrote a note to me. As I sat there reading the notes from my parents and brothers tears rolled down my cheek. I had been brought so low that this tiny act brought me so far back up. I suppose that if things are as fantastic as we always plan, we can become ungrateful for the little things and the reminders that really matter. Although my Thanksgiving was far from fantastic, it was meaningful. And by being so simple, it really set me off on a good path for Christmas. This Christmas is already different from all the others and I'm really taking the time to become close to my Savior. SayGoBeDos are coming back again. For the sake of not overwelming you with really long posts I will post my recent Saygobedos on a new post. But the moral of this is to say that:

Having fantastic SayGoBeDos are great some times and give up opportunities to be great; but sometimes we must go back to the basics. To as simple as saying thank you or holding on to those close to us. We need to be able to do the things that are easy in order to make room enough for those that are hard to accomplish. If any of you are like me, you need reminded on how simple things really are. And that those simple things are so important in the long run.

By looking simply, I can now look on to a compassionate, calming, joyful and light Christmas. Join me in my journey?