So last week I'm dreaming away in my bed, in my dream I'm snuggling this really big super snugly cat when it starts to wiggle around trying to jump out of my arms smacking me. Meanwhile my dear sweet husband is dreaming that he is wrestling an alligator. I wake up and needless to say TJ was the big snugly cat and I was the alligator.

Today was one of my favorite days! It was a super wake up call that sounded like this, "GOD LOVES YOU ELIZABETH CONNOLLY and He's been trying to show you that but you need to raise your sights higher than the 30 degree angle you've been set on for the past few months". So it wasn't quite a 30 degree angle, but it was like God got out his salt shaker of blessings and started shaking it over me like bland potatoes (I like salty potatoes) and then just to make sure they were salty enough shook it a few more times. Daniel and Lori were sealed this morning, it helped me remember that I am bound to my husband, it does not matter if he is at work or school, I'm never separated from him or from my Father in Heaven. It also helped me see that I am a part of something much greater, greater than I can wrap my mind around. I was about to call it my earthly mind but I know that my mind is set on something much higher than earthly things. I was able to see how grateful I am for the family I married into. They have taught my husband and I how to have an excellent marriage, something far to rare. There are so many people without good examples who do not know what it means to learn to love someone. Some I've decided live unhappily while most these day divorce. I know there is a better way than both of these and intend to apply it everyday. I know there is strength in those covenants we made that help us succeed at life and our marriage as we apply faith. I know that families are for us to learn and to learn to have joy in the journey. Joy in the journey requires work, all kinds of different work, but work, not ease.
As I sat with my hubby listening to the guitar teacher of his youth perform beautiful music with other people whose desire is to lift and inspire through their music I watched the dragonflies dance in the perfect summer eve breeze and thought wow this is heaven on earth. I thought of the beauty of those people inside and out, they truly have gifts and missions in life with bringing beauty to other people's life. I was thinking how much I wished I had that gift when my husband looked at me with his big shinning brilliant blue eyes and said "your beauty blows theirs out of the water", I'm grateful it does to him because that all that matters, I know I'm beautiful, but being Greek I will never have small facial features or perfectly straight blond hair, and so I'm my own type of beautiful and that is just fine with me.
We walked to the place my husband first new he wanted to marry me, a place for me that is filled with all the faith, hope, and dreams I think I have ever had or will ever have. He has made all my dreams all the desires of my heart come true and I know that God knew he would and it has made life all the more amazing. As we lay in the grass I thought God is so mindful of every thought and detail of my life, I really am His daughter and He takes care of me like a Queen. I do feel a little spoiled but I think that is a father's job. It makes their daughters want to be worthy of that kind of love and spoiling.