Susan McCloud THE JOY WITHIN ME! I am fast approaching the yearmark for my hip replacement surgery. How entirely, last March, did my life very suddenly change. I lived on the couch in the family room. I watched every DVD in my generous collection. i read dozens of books -- most of which i had read before either once or twice.

I did much thinking and pondering. I learned new meanings for the word Patience. I found myself feeling grateful for every little blessing or kindness that came my way. I felt the Presence of many of those I love who have gone before . . . new gentle understandings were given to me. I opened my heart, and I began to feel LOVE in many new, gentle, quite precious ways. And I wrote a NEW BOOK. I did not feel ready. my body was not strong enough. Long hours of sitting at my desk would not be good for me. Late hours looking up sources --agonizing over sources -- getting far less sleep than I needed in order to heal . . . But SUSA! I had wanted to write about Susa for many long years. So, through the grace of He who is always willing to help us -- to empower and magnify us -- WOMEN of POWER was born. LUCY BIGELOW had a rare and powerful gift of healing. SHe did not worry about what she was getting from life, but what she was able to give. SUSA YOUNG GATES had to grow up and learn from many things that she suffered. But she loved truth. And she loved and trust her father, Brigham Young, and her mother. She was vivacious, hard-working, and possessed a faith that helped her to Serve and to pay honor to her Heavenly Father, even when experiencing the loss of her precious children.

SUSA was born in the LION HOUSE-- the first child born there-- pictured her with her Father, BRIGHAM YOUNG To COMPLETE this POST I am going to share with yhou a QUOTE from CHARLES DICKENS "Nothing vanishes from the eye of God, though much might pass away from the eyes of men. The children that we were are not lost to the great knowledge of our Creator. Those innocent creatures will appear with us before Him, and plead for us. What we were in the best of our generous youth will arise and go with us, too. The purest part of our lives will not desert us at the pass to which al of us here are gliding. What we were then will be as much in existence before Him, as what we are now. SO much BEAUTY and WISDOM in the WORLD! SO many REASONS to REJOICE!! S \\