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!