{"id":13002,"date":"2010-07-13T00:34:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-13T04:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/?p=13002"},"modified":"2012-05-11T18:07:50","modified_gmt":"2012-05-11T22:07:50","slug":"snatch-happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/snatch-happiness\/","title":{"rendered":"Snatch Happiness"},"content":{"rendered":"
We have all had those<\/b><\/i> days. <\/div>\n
The kind of day that may look like this.<\/div>\n
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Or perhaps this.<\/div>\n
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Or even as devastating as this.<\/div>\n
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I know we have all had those<\/em><\/strong> days. <\/div>\n
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But once in awhile, you get those other<\/em><\/strong> days.<\/div>\n
The days that stick to your heart like glue.<\/div>\n
Days that can never be erased from your memory <\/div>\n
because they were such a delight to the soul.<\/div>\n
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I had one of those perfect days in February.<\/div>\n
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It snowed in Texas <\/em>a lot.<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n
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And my munchkins looked like this.<\/div>\n
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You couldn’t wipe the smiles off their faces if you tried.<\/div>\n
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Okay, maybe it wasn’t that perfect.<\/div>\n
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But it was a good good<\/em><\/strong> day. <\/div>\n
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The kind of day you just want to stop and live forever.<\/div>\n
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I made homemade soup and homemade rolls.<\/div>\n
Lee stayed home from work. <\/div>\n
After hours of fun in the snow together, we warmed up our tummies with the food.<\/div>\n
Then we climbed into our big bed and watched movies together.<\/div>\n
It felt like Heaven on Earth to me.<\/div>\n
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Then the electricity went out…<\/div>\n
for two days.<\/strong><\/div>\n
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But it was still a very good day.<\/div>\n
It sticks to my heart like glue. <\/div>\n
Even months later, I love thinking about that day.<\/div>\n
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“Happiness is not given to us in a package that we can just open up and consume.  Nobody is ever happy 24 hours a day, seven days a week…we perhaps need to snatch happiness in little pieces, learning to recognize the elements of happiness and then treasuring them while they last.” <\/em><\/div>\n
– James E Faust, “Our Search for Happiness”, Ensign Oct. 2000, 2.<\/a><\/em><\/div>\n

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Blog to you soon, <\/div>\n
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