If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands!

If you're happy and you know it then your life will surely show it if you're happy and you know it clap your hands. I read a quote this morning by Viktor Frankl. He was a psychiatrist who survived the holocaust. He wrote, "Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms-to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way." I love his perspective. I wish I had his resolve. I will say that my glass is usually half full. I often wonder who drank the other half and once in awhile I wonder who's gonna pay for my next Diet Coke. There's an old Chinese saying that says,"Half and orange tastes just as sweet as a whole one." Perspective is such a crazy thing to me. It's incredibly how the adversary can control so much of our lives simply through his influence on our perspective of things. I came across a quote this morning during my studies by Elder Vern Stanfill, "No matter how intense the darkness of doubt, we choose how long and to what extent we allow it to influence us. We must remember how much our Heavenly Father and His Son love us." Today I am choosing sun. I've been in the darkness, I've lived through the partly cloudy. Those days may come again, I may lose perspective. That's what makes me human. Today I am choosing to enjoy the happiness that Heavenly Father intended for me. I will control my thoughts and my actions and I will bask in the warmth and goodness that this life has to offer. Today, I will press forward! Press forward through the doubts and sadness, press forward through the temptations and whatever obstacles are in my path. I am choosing my own way. I am choosing to believe that I am a daughter of Heavenly Father. Cherished, loved and adored! It's my hope and prayer for those of you reading this that you will feel strengthened and empowered to do the same. We can choose happy!

Faith Enough

"May we have enough faith to accept the goodness of God and the mercy of his Only Begotten Son. May we come unto him and his gospel and be healed. And may we do more to heal others in the process. When the storms of life make this difficult, may we still follow his bidding to “come,” keeping our eye fixed on him forever and single to his glory. In doing so we too will walk triumphantly over the swelling waves of life’s difficulties and remain unterrified amid any rising winds of despair. I pray we will hear this very night that sweet utterance from the Savior of the world: “Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden. . . . And ye shall find rest unto your souls” (Matthew 11:28–29). “Be of good cheer; it is I; be not afraid” (Matthew 14:27). I pray this for you and for those you can help, in the sacred name of Jesus Christ. Amen."