Good Sabbath - A Favorite Quote

In spite of the temperature being 92* today when the normal should be 78*. . . it is a Good Sabbath. Attitude does it, right. We had stake conference today. It was wonderful and I couldn't help but take notes from the various talks given as reminders of things to do to improve myself. I love that life is a workshop and I am a project in process. I'm happy it is November, the month of giving thanks. I started a stitchery about 2 years ago of one of my favorite quotes (below). You can tell I'm not the stitchery queen that MTN is since is it still soooo uncompleted and I don't know that it will be done in time to frame and display this year either. That won't stop me from sharing the quote with you though. I hope you like it. I hope it inspires you too. I hope you give much thanks. I hope we can all realize that one of the best ways to show Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ our gratitude for our many blessings is through service. I hope you can recognize and count many blessings in your lives. I hope you consider my love for you as one of those blessings. I love you dearly. Mom

“Oh Thou who has given us so much,

mercifully grant us one thing more:

a grateful heart.”

-- George Herbert

Now, if you're interested, a little history about this picture and the pilgrims...

"The Pilgrim Fathers' first landing 13 Nov 1620 "
Original painting by Mike Haywood. Mike Haywood wanted to capture a joyous moment when a group of Mayflower passengers first sets foot on land after having spent so many weeks cooped up on board a pitching ship; the moment when American soil was touched for the first time. His picture is not of the landing at Plimoth(which occurred about a month later).
Mike relies on Caleb Johnson to provide him with the historical facts. He tells Mike that the Mayflower anchored off what is now called Provincetown at dawn on the 11th November.
Caleb continues........... ...........
They took a quick jaunt ashore on November 11 (“15 or 16 men, well armed”) mostly to gather juniper to be burned (to purify the air on the ship). On November 13, they hauled their shallop ashore (which was in several pieces) so it could be fixed up and re-assembled. The carpenter made “slow work of it” (more than two weeks, actually) and so the men set out on their first expedition by foot “well armed … with every man his musket, sword and corslet” and led by Myles Standish. That same day they also brought many others ashore simply to “refresh themselves”, and even the women and teenage girls came ashore to do laundry: The Mayflower’s captain and some of the crew and a dog were also apparently ashore, as the explorers accidentally mistook two men and their dog for being the captain and some of his men … but as they got closer they realized they were Indians, who then took off into the forest whistling the dog after them.
The Mayflower is known to have had an English mastiff and an English spaniel onboard...

Hope you are having a Good Sabbath.