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Show • N E W S - Covering what matters most Spanish Fork Trying to look your best Life After Death Janene Baadsgaard Looking your best just isn't everything it's cracked up to be. I mean if I fix my hair, put on my make-up and wear stylish clothing all the time — when people stop by to visit me on a Saturday morning before I shower, they will not even recognize me. Sometimes we women spend too much time working on our outward appearance and forget to notice our inner beauty. I give myself one day a week when I'm simply good enough - in the raw. I don't walk around naked, but on that day I let me — be me. I shower and brush my teeth but everything else goes 'el natural. No make-up, no hair style, no uncomfortable clothing. I love my Good Enough Day. I look forward to my Good Enough Day. I don't even leave the house unless it's on fire. I try not to do anything I have to do. Instead I find activities that replenish and refresh my soul. This is my "fill the well" day. For I have learned that I can't water a garden of souls if my own source of water is dry. People who obsess about how they appear to others always seem stiff and fake, like they're afraid their make-up will crack or the wind might blow their hair out of place. They hardly notice you when you speak to them because they are too busy posing. Gosh can't we women just get over ourselves? Why is it that we are often so self-absorbed about the way we look? Why don't we take a closer look at who we are on the inside . . . and I don't mean our gall bladders. How about the capacity of our hearts to appreciate God's blessings or the depths of our compassion for others? Inside every stiff selfconscious woman is a child who begs to be set free. Remember dancing in the front yard in your new petticoat? Remember rolling in the sand and digging in the dirt without worrying about ruining your clothes? Remember how the wind used to feel in your hair before you starting worrying about whether or not your hairspray was going to hold up? The point is — we have been given a glorious beautiful woman's body. We can give birth to new human beings and provide their entire food supply for months. We can snuggle with our husband at night and cuddle with our children during the day. We are soft with round curves for a reason. Shouldn't we be grateful for arms that hug, lips that kiss and tummies that are soft enough to be a pillow for someone's head. If we have ears that can hear and legs that can move, shouldn't we be dancing? Shouldn't we delight in the wonder of being a woman? Janene Baadsgaard Why do we mature females waste so much time we feel gratitude for the complaining about our wonderful woman's body, weight or our hair turn- mind and soul we have ing gray? It's nqt shameful been given — then choose for our bodies to demon- to share our light and love strate that we enjoy eating with all those around us. or that we are getting older Janene Baadsgaard is and wiser. Perhaps the real the author of many hushame is our ingratitude for morous and heartwarming the unique and incredible books for families includmind and body God gave ing Families Who Laugh . . us. There are cultures in . Last, On the Roller Coastthe world where it is coner Called Motherhood, sidered beautiful to have Winter's Promise, Financial a large heavy ring in your nose. So it's past time to re- Freedom for LDS Families, examine and stop accepting The LDS Mother's Almaour culture's narrow defini- nac and her most recent publication 15 Secrets to a tion of beauty. Happy Home - available at There is a light that local book stores or on-line comes to a woman's counat www.springcreekbooks. tenance when she lets go of self absorption. Truly look- com. She can be reached at ing good — is being good janenebaadsgaard@juno. and that only happens when com. Talking about the weather WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1 1 , 2008 • A3 Benjamin rounds up the citizens Carl and Shirley Shepherd welcomed to their home a young lady they knew Albania, while they serving their mission there (in fact, Carl baptized her). Irma Denarie is visiting with the Shepherds prior to going to Salt Lake to attend LDS Business College. It has been delightful to meet and visit with her. We welcome her to our area and hope she enjoys her stay. We also wish her the best with her schooling. ••• Our sympathy goes to Diane and Ken Bringhurst on the death of Diane's brother, Neil H. Shoell, who passed away in Pay son, on Thursday, May 29, 2008. Funeral services were held on Monday, June 2, 2008 at the Walker Mortuary in Payson with burial in the Goshen Cemetery. ••• Bernice (Harmer) Woffinden, along with Phyllis (Smart) Olsen served as chairmen for the 70th year reunion of Springville High School's class of 1938. The affair was held at Prestwich Farms Oak Crest Inn on Thursday, May 22, 2008 with twenty two attending. Along with dinner, prizes were given to those who take the most pills, came the farthest distance, and have the most great grandchildren. Each person took a turn bringing the others up to date on what has transpired since the last reunion. ••• A final reminder of Benjamin Days on Thursday, June 12, 2008. with the theme of Benjamin Roundup. We hope to 'round up' all present and former residents and friends to join in the fun. '' 1 \ food costs, the shortage of commodities, etc. One interesting headline in a recent newspaper was how rising food prices Your chuckle for the have impacted the school week: An old man went to lunch program and reported his doctor complaining of a the local districts that have variety of aches and pains. raised the price of the lunchAfter a thorough examina- es in their schools. Maybe tion, the doctor gave him a there needs to be a look at clean bill of health. "You're the school lunch program. in excellent shape for an 85 Could it be that we have become accustomed to a proyear-old man," he said, "But gram that, over the years, I'm afraid I can't make you has bent over backwards any younger." "Who asked to please the students? You you to make me younger?", know, given them a variety the man replied. "You just of meals to choose from in make sure I get older!" order to cater to their food For a long time, it seemed preferences. Or maybe to me that the weather was they have learned that from an easy topic of conversa- home. If they didn't like tion whenever people con- what Mom had prepared, gregated to visit. It still is maybe she gave them - in fact, weather has almost something they liked or dominated the headlines in they just went down to the recent months. Such ter- local convenience store and rible and drastic conditions bought what they wanted all around the world. But, that particular day. We all there is also another topic have our own food preferthat shares the spotlight ences. Some days you're in with the weather and that, the mood for a big kettle of of course, is the economy soup, or a tasty grilled hamwhich includes the housing burger, or. a plain old hot market, gas prices, rising dog. There are people in my family who don't like onions, cooked broccoli, nuts in cakes or cookies or bananas in a cream pie. That's life, we're all different. But, back to the school lunch program. And don't write me and tell me that "the school lunch is probably the only good meal that many children get that day! - and I know that's true. But have you ever been to a school cafeteria during a lunch hour (especially an elementary school) and noticed the food that is wasted! I feel a "now back in my day" story coming on. I was attending the Thurber School when the school lunch program started and that was a long, long time ago - probably in the very early 1940's. A basement room was converted into a lunch room and we were given a bowl of soup, chili, beans or some other onedish meal, a drink of milk and a piece of cake or a cookie. The price? 2 cents a day. If we preferred, we could take a sandwich from home which was usually wrapped in brown paper. We were small children, our appetites weren't all that humongous and as I remember it, it was very adequate. We were given breakfast at home before we went to school and at my home it consisted of cooked oatmeal, eggs and toast and milk, so we didn't need a big lunch. We hear the word "simplify" all the time and maybe that could be applied here. Don't rely on the schools to be responsible to feed the children and satisfy all their whimsies about food. I'm sure that food costs are going to continue to rise and maybe there won't be a choice but to re-think this system. I can't remember the exact wording, but there is a little kitchen saying that in effect refers that "there are two choices for dinner - "take it or leave it." I know - times have changed and you know what, they will continue to change and sometimes we have to change with them. If we don't bend, we'll break. * , Madison's Avenue a I I ij HEATING & AIR CONDITIONING • Service • Furnace Replacements • A/C Add Ons • Green Sticker • Financing OAC bryant Cooing Systems SPONSORED BY, SECURITY HOME MORTGAGE 798-1681 4. 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