a lesson from the sunbeams

today i found myself in primary.

i helped my momma {the primary secretary} brighten up the room and straighten chairs. i was going to leave... i really was...but how can you leave primary when the kids are so darn cute?

it was the perfect remedy to yesterday's wearying sadness: cute little faces, folded arms, classic happy songs, giggles, polka-dots, and little waves from the sunbeam row. 

i wish singles wards were more like primary. 

or at least, 

that everything was as simplified as it all really is.

i know who i am. i know god's plan. i'll follow him in faith.

there's a reason we are to be more like children.
when i was in primary eons ago, i didn't understand why adults would blubber about how special we were when we were rambuntious little hellions.  

but now i see it-- the truth is simple to them. and while they may have a case of the wiggles, they sing brightly and in the simplest of ways exclaim that god loves them, that jesus want's them for a sunbeam, and that the scriptures are true.

they believe. whole-heartedly, nothing wavering, nothing doubting.

i want to believe, like those little sunbeams.  

i also want to be happy, like those smiling sunbeams.

so, i'm venturing to southern utah this next weekend for a little adventure and fun.

did i mention i'm skipping class to do so?

you're only young once. plus senioritis has set in-- so i'm going for it.

full-speed ahead, indeed!