I Don't Even Bother Trying To Fake It...

Until We Meet Again

Jess Berry Quote of The Day!

Make no small plans. They have no magic to stir men's souls.

President Spencer W. Kimball

Mama Berry Wants A New Profile Picture...

For many months my most faithful reader, Mama Berry, has been asking for a new profile picture on my sidebar. As the author, editor, czar, and tutor of this blog I have felt inclined up to this point to ignore (albeit kindly ignore since Mama Berry is my Mama), said request. Now the time has come to satisfy my most faithful reader. ***Yes I'm admitting publicly that my Mama is my most faithful reader. Maybe it is because she really does thinks I'm funny, or maybe because it is the new way to keep tabs on your children, or maybe it is because she feels it is her motherly duty to humor her crazy child. Whatever her reason, today is her lucky day! The selection committee has narrowed down the options for a new profile picture, to a selection that includes a little slice of the real Jess Berry in each pic.

Your job: Vote by commenting which one you'd prefer. (Maybe this will get some of you blog creepers to actually comment). Please vote by Sunday. If you don't care, that's fine...you're vote doesn't matter anyways. ;)

Option 1: Big Eyes

Option 2: Big Glasses

Option 3: Big Smile

Divine Forethought

Saturday morning was a bright, beautiful, albeit windy morning in Oakland. Bobby R and RMR were sealed for time and all eternity in the Oakland LDS Temple. It was also a joyous reunion as friends over the past several years flew in and gathered for the great day. (Seeing Benj, SLO, and JEW for even just a couple of hours was wonderful!) And BC with his stellar camera took a few shots of KT and I. As KT and I sat in sacrament mtg the next day together we reminisced about how merciful God is in placing people in our lives that will be true and constant friends. He definitely knew what He was doing placing us together...even if we didn't realize it. What a true and honest friend The KT is! Divine Forethought in action yet again...

Oh and we are knockouts (stating that of course with much humility and grace)!

Miracle Saturday!

Congratulations Bobby R and RMR!

(Have I mentioned that I'm a little more in love with LOVE after Wedding Day 2010?)

Love Leads to Eternal Life

Love is the beginning, the middle, and the end of the pathway of discipleship. It comforts, counsels, cures, and consoles. It leads us through valleys of darkness and through the veil of death. In the end love leads us to the glory and grandeur of eternal life.

Joseph B. Wirthlin, “The Great Commandment,” Liahona, Nov. 2007, 28

Team Hydro In The Mercury News!

With only a few weeks before race-day Team Hydro was featured here in the SV Mercury News! A great article. Team Hydro hopes to be able to fund a research grant this year. They need $55,000 to do so! As of right now $45,000 has been raised.

Join the cause. DONATE! Please. Every dollar counts towards a cause that potentially can preserve lives.

DONATE HERE!

Thanks!

Jess

Two Days Until...

I Get To Witness A Real Life Miracle!

The Man in the Glass

The Man in the Glass

When you get what you want in your struggle for self,

And the world makes you king for a day,

Just go to the mirror and look at yourself

And see what that man has to say.

It isn't your father or mother or wife

Whose judgment which you must pass.

The fellow whose verdict counts most in your life

Is the one staring back from the glass.

You may be like Jack Horner and chisel a plum

And think you're a wonderful guy.

But the man in the glass says you're only a bum

If you can't look him straight in the eye.

He's the fellow to please‑ never mind all the rest,

For he's with you clear to the end.

And you've passed your most dangerous, difficult test

If the man in the glass is your friend.

You may fool the whole world down the pathway of years

And get pats on the back as you pass.

But your final reward will be heartache and tears

If you've cheated the man in the glass.