I've thought about starting a blog for a long time. I have many friends and family members that have blogs and at first I thought they were silly, I figured that since I had a Facebook page, there was no need for a blog.

Now I realize they are fundamentally different.

I wanted to begin writing again, even if it is purely for myself, for me to go back and read, that's okay. It's an opportunity for me to express my love of God, my gratitude for the life I live, and hopefully to remember the beautiful things and people and thoughts and moments that occur regularly in my life.

One such beautiful moment occurred last night.

It was one of those times in your life when you do not realize how much you have truly impacted another's life. This impact is something I pray for everyday. I want to find someone to serve and share with another the happiness I find in life and why.

This moment was actually a text message conversation. A friend that has become even more dear wrote to me, thanking me for all the help I had offered him. He thanked me for showing him that the world IS full of good people. I took the opportunity to share my testimony with him of the reality of Heavenly Father. I had challenged him to pray to his Father in Heaven for help in a time when he felt he was an ultimate failure.

I promised him that I would remain the person I was to him for the rest of my life.

He promised that he would always wear a wrist band he got from an exhibit I helped create about how to strengthen those in the world, even simply in our society who are oppressed. This token represents that he will always remember our friendship.

I was touched that he felt that he hadn't done enough to reciprocate the friend I was to him. I asked him to promise me that he would take what I had given to him, and share it with someone else so that another person may feel the joy in life that we both now feel.

These are the moments I want to remember. The moments when a loved one realizes their worth, realizes how far they have come in their life towards becoming the person they want to be. It is my hope that through this journey I will be able to become the person I want to be.

I know this block is nothing super remarkable. I haven't traveled to any exotic country, I haven't done anything to warrant fame. If these posts do get read, I don't share them for recognition of myself. All I want is to remember the beautiful moments of my life and share my gratitude for what God has given me.