President Monson visited my Dream Last Night

Lately I have not had very coherent dreams, but last night my dream was short, but quite vivid.
The memory of the dream was sparked when I was reading one of President Monson's addresses from April 2008's General Conference.

Here is the dream:

It is night time and my children are in bed. All of a sudden President Monson pays us a visit in my home! I do not remember the conversation we had, but I do remember having this overwhelming feeling to ask Pres. Monson to give my son, Raegan, a blessing. I asked him to please help Raegan, because he has been having some *problems (*I have omitted some details for privacy).

We went to where Raegan was sleeping and Pres. Monson and I knelt down by Raegan. The feeling I had at that moment during the dream is difficult to describe, but it made me feel warm and the room was filled with love.

President Monson laid is hands on Raegan's head and I followed suit. Now the strange thing is that I know that Pres. Monson gave a blessing but I do not recall any words being spoken.

As I share this dream, I feel the Spirit touch me. Those of you who have had this will understand what I mean. The feeling of being humbled by the Spirit of the Almighty, a feeling of strength, a feeling of happiness and wanting to cry all at the same time! That is a way I can describe it.

Then the dream ended.

I usually do not share experiences like this, but I felt a strong urge to write about this. I am not sure why I had the dream, but it did give me comfort in some way.

Recently, I have had a renewed desire to be better. I felt I lacked consistency in my life, both spiritually and in everyday life and thing s need to improve.

I have made renewed commitment to serve more and fulfill my callings in Church. Since then, I have felt the Spirit of the Lord prompt and comfort me more.

I know that God is personally aware of me and my family and I am grateful for the help that is manifest by it in so many different ways.

Today, is a good day!

The Origins of Design ...continued

They say that design is man trying to imitate nature. I agree.
You can't help but be inspired by nature, it stirs the emotions, fills our hearts with peace and gives us hope. I am not sure why, but maybe because we are apart of it. We are made from the same "stuff", made by the same Being who created all things from the crawling ant to majestic galaxies in the heavens.

I believe that designers, without being consciously aware of it, but are imitating their Maker.

So, without going further into a lengthy philosophical essay, I love nature and love the Earth, and I love the Designer who made it all.

Those who feel the same way, will love this short inspiring movie that is being shared by the people that brought us "The Secret". You have the option to watch a Youtube video or Download the movie so that you can watch it without having to wait for it to download.
Shout Out to the guys at the Secret! Thank You!

The Secret - Planet Earth

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Our Little Miracle

On the 3rd of May 2007, our little girl, Taia Maria Botha, was born into the world!
Will update with more later.

Soon! Very Soon!

We went to Tracy's doctor yesterday and he told us that baby will probably be born in 4 days!
Can't wait to meet our little Angel! Tracy is getting more and more tired, and baby is moving more now too.
Keep Tracy in your prayers. Here come the sleepless nights!

The Name Game

Well, with just over a week to go, our daughter is at brink of enter the world of giants! I must say that Tracy and I are a bit nervous but excited to welcome a new Spirit into the world.

There has been some difficulty in choosing names. We have been through a number of baby name books and found some beautiful names, but none of them seemed right. We thought of Andrea, but we were looking for a soft name.

We found a Hebrew name, Taylia, which interpreted, means "Gentle Dew form Heaven", but decided to shorten it into "Taia". This name seems to have stuck with us and feels right.

Tracy has this thing for middle names, so we thought of "Taia Maria Botha", Maria after Tracy's mom.

However, we will still wait until baby is born and decide then. We want to have a list before-hand to help us finally decide, after all, she will have this name for the rest of her life!

Our little family

As an intro to our our little family, I thought I would include some pictures taken of Tracy and Raegan a few months ago. Raegan is such a cute kid!