Let My Light So Shine!

I've always wanted to be found doing what I was supposed to be doing; being where I was supposed to be; and participating in any church event when asked to participate. So enthusiastically, this former museum curator began gathering photos, stories, ideas, craft projects that I could share when the Stake Relief Society asked for displays, food and talents. 

I wrote this lyric poem to try to share my talents, but alas, they don't want so much "stuff" now I will be limited to 1/4 round table. The theme is "Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your Father which is in heaven."

A Tri-fold display to let my light so shine

By my good works to glorify God.

Three sides are doubled to tell the story:

My life, my talents, my gifts, my passionate focus

First love, is solving the mystery

Who am I?

Finding my ancestors

Helping to find your ancestors

A calling from God before my birth

Revealed in my Patriarchal Blessing

Now focused in FamilySearch Family Tree

Attaching sources, recording memories

Like the Tree, I branch out to

My Heritage loving AI photos of me

DNA and 17 family trees on Ancestry

Two search engines, different algorithms

Basic research now enhanced

Mountains of data, sifted and sorted

Fold3, Newspapers.com, and FindaGrave 

all reveal their hidden secrets, mysteries solved

My second love, a gift or talent?

Using art to share a story

Writing lyric poems, inspired,

Creating sculptures of paper

Sharing gospel light on social media

FaceBook, Instagram, a blog: Malachi 3:16

Bee in the Desert, symbol of my nature

Busy, Busy, Busy

Flower to flower, pollinating as I go

This symbol love began early

The Camp Fire Law said Worship God

How, I wondered?

Searched first one church then another

This lost lamb, now is found in the loving

Arms of the Good Shepherd.

Humble and meek, I pray to serve

My ancestors, then symbols become real

In temple covenants.

Family is my Trifecta

Continuing traditions by sharing

Dolls, sea shells and gem collecting

Combining and overlapping dolls, camping with an artist's eye,

Photography captures memories, creates digital art

My Spiritual DNA revealed

It brings into focus why I am here,

To Worship God, Create Beauty and Honor Family