Wisdom?

I have been fretting over this all month. Just two days before my 37th Birthday....I was driving in the car and just happened to catch my face in the mirror and I looked to my hair for just a minute and caught something at a glance. I thought to myself "no this can't be .... is that a grey hair?". I instantly pulled it out (while driving) and sure enough it was stark white. I almost crashed the car. I do not recommend finding grey hairs while driving. My first reaction was to start to cry and think I am getting so old. And this type of reaction usually leads into more self doubt and critisism only it didn't this time. I was trying to be brave and not crash the car. And then this thought popped into my head. "I have officailly joined the ranks of the wise!" And then that grey hair turned into something positive and it changed my whole thought process. It was wonderful. I still dont like the fact that I have found 3 more since then but I dont look at myself with the same frightening thought of going grey. I think of myself as aging gracefully and one grey hair at a time ...that I can pull out!

Can wisdom be found in just one grey hair? No. It's been there all the time. I just needed to be reminded that I had some.

Question

So I thought I would post a question and see what you all thought....

Does adversity develop character or does it reveal character?

I have this question taped up to my cupboard and every time I read it I always think to myself "What does adversity do to me?" I think it effects me differently on any given day. I try to learn from it and sometimes it will shape my attitude for the day. Not letting it effect me negatively is the real test I beleive.

Oh the dredded test ... I am thankful I passed the first test. For I know I did...I am here on earth today. Living, loving and going through my second test....mortality. I am thankful I have mutiple choices for my test...and yet sometimes... I just want the answer book. But that will not bring the growth that we need to learn and build character. To draw strength from one another and to treasure this life and find meaningful relationships. Yes I am thankful for multiple choices. For that is our Saviors plan. Free agency. So yet again I ask you this question "Does adversity develop character or does it reveal character?"

I love reading other bloggs from my family. I miss it when they dont write very often...and then I thought to myself "wait a minute thats me too". I don't write very often on my blog ... maybe I should just start writing random things.... oh ya kind of like the random thing that happened to us about 3 days ago. A snake came in the front door of our house.... can't get more random than that. I was totally freaked out... a snake in our living room hiding under our sofa and then behind a cabinet...for about 3 hours I panicked trying to coax this snake out and my son helping to catch it ( I was not about to touch it). Anyway it finally slithered out and Taylor grabbed it and carried it outside and threw it accross the street. So this summer will go down in history as the summer the snake got in our house.

Or maybe it should be the summer that Isaac learned how to ride a regular bike in ten minutes. Taylor and his friend Joel taught him how to ride...he came riding down our street and it was the sweetest and cutest and scarriest feeling. I didnt quite know what to think at first I was so stunned to see my four year old riding a bike .... with no training wheels. So guess what I did? Yep I ran and grabbed my camara. I will blog a picture of it soon. He is now the terror of the neighborhood. Anyway so exciting times around our home. And I thought that summer was for relaxing???? I guess it depends on what you call relaxing.