A Lovely Thanksgiving Break

I was blessed to be able to go home, very last minute, for Thanksgiving this year. Thanks Mom and Dad for helping me make it home! It was definitely a much needed break for me. One of the highlights of the trip was going to Temple Square to check out the lights. Here are some pics of its beauty!

The luminaries were my favorite part. They were incredible. Each one was written in a different language.
World peace, that's what that is.

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At the BYU Museum of Art there is an extraordinary exhibit of Carl Bloch originals. Click here to read about it. If you are in the Utah area, the paintings will be at BYU until May 7, 2011 before returning to their original locations in Europe.
Some of my favorites included:

Gethesemane

Luke 22:41-44 And he was withdrawn from them about a stone’s cast, and kneeled down, and prayed, Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done. And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven, strengthening him. And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.

Healing at the Pool of Bethesda

John 5: 2-9, 16-17 Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches. In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had. And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years. When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole? The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me. Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk. And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked: and on the same day was the Sabbath. And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the Sabbath day. But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.

AND HERE'S MY FAVORITE BLOCH PAINTING

Why? Because I love old people; I love the old woman's countenance. I feel like she perfectly expresses God's love for even some of the smallest and insignificant creatures on this Earth.

Old Woman Feeding Sparrows

Matthew 10:29-30 "Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered."

"God is in the details! Just as the Lord knows all of His vast creations, He also knows and loves each in any crowd—indeed, He knows and loves each and all of mankind!" ~Elder Neal A. Maxwell