Ramblings of a crazy mind.

Its friday, so I find myself deep in thought. (for better or worse). While I generally don't toss up musings here I'm in the mood today.

We are powerful. Just don't realize it. It's funny, cause in a world we generally hate one thing. Chaos. Chaos is for the most part the one driving force of fear for all of us. Its why death scares us so much, or what keeps us working or keeps us striving to live a moral standard. All for fear of the chaos that comes from being tossed about in any fashion where we lack control. I think the biggest part of the LDS gospel is about gaining control. The ironic thing about the gospel is its vibe is think of others to save ourselves. Love thy neighbor, honor thy parents etc... The comfort of which isn't necessarily avoiding chaos, but having faith in what we are. ..which you may ask is what?

Being created from the very essense of our Heavenly Father. We are literally made from god material. God is the very pinacle of creation power. Thus I believe as his children we are blessed by the get go to be tiny power creators ourselves. Imagine if we realized this more. The entire earth is filled with life, animals fill their role, plants grow. But humans, we create. Whether we realize it and for good or evil we are filling what we were meant to do....our essence is to create to strive to create anything! Its our very makeup, we center our self dignity, self identity on our creations. Maybe its children, or our ability to survive, or perhaps our ability to make people laugh, or our ability to be lazy or evil.

I think about this, and in our world if feels more and more chaotic. I'm not sure if it really is more chaotic than previous generations. (Its kind of selfish to think it is I believe) or the fact that I'm getting older and realize more and more that it is already. There just seems to be this feeling in the LDS community that the latter days are just going to be aweful and chaotic, so we accept it more as the norm. Thats not really whats important. We lose personal power over our lives by accepting this. When crap happens and we feel like our lives are in chaos, we tend to turn towards the Lord more often than not. While that is good, I think we do ourselves a disservice by forgetting our first and foremost gift. Our ability to create. We MUST have faith in that ability. We are of God, there is no obstical that is too much. WE ARE POWERFUL. we just don't realize it enough. And perhaps by turning to the Lord, we beg for ways to impliment this power into solving our problems of chaos we will have more security.

Super savings!

Funny adventure we had at work. Perhaps to set the setting a bit, my office environment is ..well its faily manly. All guys, talk gets pretty locker room-ish. But its a bunch of great guys. That being said, we landed on the topic of grocery savings. (which in itself is kinda funny) Apparently Smiths was having a sale. 4 bags of cereal for four dollars. A friend of mine chimed in that he had internet coupons for a dollar off a bag of cereal. So in a nutshell, thats four dollars off the deal four for four. hmmmm doesn't seem bad does it? I can handle free. =D. Sooo all of us guys ALL went to smiths at the same time. You have to picture this... A bunch of guys, all in business casual clothes, holding bags of cereal all lined up. ....ALL with the same 4 dollar off coupons. So the first guy gets thru the clerk with no hassles. He takes off. Thats when the cleark gets skeptical and questions the rest of us. To make the story short, there was management involved....coupon verification checks and we all paid 24cents (for sales tax) on 4 bags of cereal. HOW DO YOU LIKE DEM SAVINGS?!! lol.

So here is a pic:

A few of my favorite computer backgrounds

Feel free to use em!

Saturdays

We enjoy our saturdays getting some chores done followed by lunch and jumping in the fountains. Sadly this time we got busted by the cops and they asked us to kindly get out. I don't
exactly remember my childhood going like that. If anything we did chores while mom or dad policed us. :D Sadly, our Maynes traditions haven't been faded and my kids feel the saturday punch of hard work and play.




This next picture actually has a story to go with it. To start my poor son Allan was extremly sick this day. Just sitting miserable on the couch. He had his bowl of soup and was watching tv. Liz was on the ground in front of him cutting her famous crafts. This was a large paper craft, beautiful and delicate. Well Brayden, strolled by and knocked Allan's soup onto the floor. Sending bits of chicken and noodle all over the floor and LIz ruining her project. Liz starts BAWLING, upset over her hard work being destroyed. Brayden starts BAWLING over Liz screaming and Allan is upset over his soup being gone. Peace and seconds to pure chaos of crying. Well, to tell the picture story, Allan he see's the situation. I'm unable to calm Liz or Bray down, so he takes on the big brother role. Gathers his siblings up on the couch. Puts his arms around them and soothes them like nobody else can. He glances up at his father, as if to say "I've got this one dad" and thats when i snapped the photo with my phone. Moments like that, I couldn't be prouder and he was making peace not just for peace sake but because he loves his family. And in one simple move he soothed Liz, Brayden myself and the spirit in the home.