Wednesday, April 28, 2010

The kind of woman I want to be....


"I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully, tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails.
I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp.
I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbors children.
I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone's garden.
I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and the tears of a friend on my shoulder.
I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived."

4 comments:

Holly Taylor said...

What a beautiful quote and inspiring woman!

Marie said...

I love this quote!!!!!

Amber said...

Wonderful quote! Great thing to think about with Mother's Day coming up!!

Wendy Beebe said...

I just loved that woman, still do. She had the cheeriest disposition and the most wonderful sense of humor for life!!!