Yea!!!  My new scriptures arrive today.  Opening a new set of scriptures is a wonderful feeling.  It is great to finally have a set with all the pages.  Over the years my old ones have been used and abused.  They went through three children from birth to teens.  They have had crayons, colored markers, highlighters and ink pens on there pages.  Each of my children have made their mark in these books.  I have highlighted certain scripture that I wanted to ponder.  There are sticky finger prints and torn pages.  I will retire this old book but I will not be discarding it.  It was my children’s childhood stuck between those sticky pages.  I am fortunate enough to be the keeper of scriptures of several of my ancestors.  They are old, ragged and fragile.  But they are the most beautiful books I poses.  as I open these books my heart glows.  To read the notes in the margins written by my family ghosts makes me feel connected to them.  It is special to me to see what particular scriptures they treasured.  These books are well used.  I intend for my new scriptures to be as well used as the ones I already posses from my ancestors.  I am putting my own notes in the margins, so some day someone will read my inspiration for life.