Today is Vale's birthday

Daniels little girl and most "consentida" turns 26 today. We feel so blessed to have very amazing and brilliant daughters but most of all they know who they are! I remember an article I read on this very subject of how each woman need to feel as if they are wearing an invisible crown.

Always Act As If You are the princess!

 I remember when I was attending the temple open house in El Salvador Elder Martino spoke of how the women in our home are considered queens and how we are all born of royal lineage, a child of a Heavenly being. I am a girl and every little girl is born thinking she is a princess, so the crown just seems natural to us of course.

 Having said that I believe true confidence is something that comes from within. It comes from living our lives in accordance with our own belief system. It comes from living with integrity. When we do the right things in life we have an inner peace that helps us to feel more confident and secure. And when we can get on our knees at the end of the day and feel that God is proud of us for how we behaved that day we will feel more confident and at peace with ourselves and that is a priceless feeling. Our girls do just that.

I am proud of our daughters. They are girls who truly do live their life by their values, even when it isn’t easy. I admire their courage and confidence so much because it comes from a place deep within and it’s not tied to anything exterior. No doubt they are beautiful but that is not what makes them confident and everyone that knows them recognizes that they don’t place importance on their exterior. Rather they are confident because they try to live their life by their beliefs and they strive each day to make their Heavenly Father proud of them. The confidence they  have because of that radiates and it draws people to them. They are admired by all that know them and I couldn’t be prouder of them than I am! Their daddy and step-dad is also proud of them too.

Going back to the crown, I personally believe that each of us is born as the spirit child of a Heavenly King (our Heavenly Father) so by divine birthright that makes us royalty. All of us are princes and princesses by birthright with the potential to someday become Heavenly Kings and Queens ourselves. So it makes sense that we should walk around each day with our invisible crowns on our head! And may we act appropriately like the royalty that we are!!!