I just finished putting the final touches on this lesson that I will teach to all (60 of them!) our YW this Sunday. I used some of the material from the manual, but found a few other items that I thought I would share:

1. I am using the object lesson of the geode. (We too are beautiful no matter what we do not like about ourselves, we all have the potential to be beautiful and radiate from the inside, which shows in our outside appearance and behavior.)

2. In the Nov. 2000 issue of Family Circle Magazine on page 12 are Life Lessons from First Ladies. Since it is election time, I thought it would be nice to enlarge some of these pictures and share the positive thinking lessons from some of our past first ladies. For example, one of them says, "True greatness has its seat in the heart . . . it must be elevated by aspiring to great things and by daring to think yourself capable of them." --Abigail Adams

The article has several more, plus the quote by Eleanor Roosevelt in the manual.

3. This thought was given to me by a friend who knew I had this lesson on my mind.-- A little boy was overhead praying: "Lord, if you can't make me a better boy, don't worry about it, I'm having a real good time like I am." anonymous

4. Last I am concluding the lesson with this poem and giving the girls a copy of it on nice paper. --"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."  The Serenity Prayer

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