today's tender mercy

i'm HORRIBLE at reading my scriptures. i just put it off and put it off until i can't keep my eyes open then i tell myself that i'll FOR SURE read tomorrow etc... well today when i woke up, i got the kids out of the house then i came up to my room and i said a prayer and read my scriptures for a few minutes. no biggie. but then i was in an extremely good mood. so i'm thinking 'hey, i should do this everyday. read in the morning instead of at night'.

a while later, i had to walk to pick up my 3 year old from school. i walk an empty stroller a mile there and a mile back with a (very heavy) child. but my being out of shape is besides the point, today i was about a block away from the school when i get a phone call. i pick it up and a man tells me he found my purse outside where he was working and that i could pick it up on my way back.

i'm just gonna take it back to this quote again:

it's still a beautiful place and there are still good honest people in this world. and for that i am so grateful. yeah, i could have lived without my purse all that was in there was a $1 bill some lip gloss and my pepper spray. i had my card in there but i could have cancelled it. but no need because a man named matt decided to be a good person. we need more of those in this world and i hope that one day i can pay it forward. so thank you matt. and i hope that you can be blessed with a tender mercy the way i was when i answered your phone call this morning.