Don't Worry, Be Happy

Don't worry, use your thinking time to
appreciate art
bake brownies...
chew chocolate...
choose cheerfulness...
do duties...
exercise effortlessly...
fantasize futures...
go gracefully...
hypothesize history...
imagine eternity...
jump joyfully...
caress carefully...
live, laugh...
memorize moonbeams...
nap in the night...
overview orchestrations...
ponder points of importance...
question, query...
write, read...
search the scriptures...
sail with stars...
sit in the sun...
taste test...
undulate underwater...
vault vastness...
verify, validate
want wonders...
wade waters...
excel excellently
expand extensively...
zigzag zealously


"And for this cause ye shall have fulness of joy; and ye shall sit down in the kingdom of my Father; yea, your joy shall be full, even as the Father hath given me fulness of joy; and ye shall be even as I am, and I am even as the Father; and the Father and I are one." 3 Nephi 28:10

"We may amuse ourselves like children do at play, or engage in the frivolities of the dance.  We may take our little enjoyments in our social assemblies.  But when the man comes to reflect, when the saint of God considers, and the visions of eternity are open to his view and the unalterable purposes of God are developed to his mind---when he contemplates his true position before God, angels, and men, then he soars above the things of time and sense and bursts the cords that bind him to earthly objects.  He contemplates God and his own destiny in the economy of heaven and rejoices in a blooming hope of an immortal glory" (John Taylor , The Gospel Kingdom, p. 63).

Don't miss attending church

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I think that if you miss attendance at church 2 Sundays in a row, you are at risk for losing the Spirit that helps you have the wisdom that leads to keeping the principles that lead yo to be happy.  What do you think?

"And moreover, I would desire that ye should consider on the blessed and happy state of those that keep the commandments of God.  For behold, they are blessed in all things, both temporal and spiritual; and if they hold out faithful to the end they are received into heaven, that thereby they may dwell with God in a state of never-ending happiness, O remember, remember that these things are true; for the Lord God hath spoken it." Mosiah 2:41

Remember "Is not the gospel a good thing?  Is it not worthy of a man losing his substance and even his life to gain the blessings that are promised to the faithful in Israel?  The man who has the priesthood, who is filled with the Holy Ghost, is to be guided and dictated by it in the way of happiness and life.  It is very necessary for us to have these things laid before us frequently, that we may be put in remembrance of our duties" (The Teachings of Lorenzo Snow, p. 59).

Keeping an Eye on You

 From the day you were born, our eyes have always been on you.  Awake or asleep, healthy or not, our eyes are always on you.  Whether in this life or on the other side of the veil, you are ours.  We will always be keeping an eye on you.

The day will come that you may need to keep an eye on us, but even then, we will be watching and loving you.

Luke 11:34

The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness.

Doctrine and Covenants 88:67

 And if your eye be single to my glory, your whole bodies shall be filled with light, and there shall be no darkness in you; and that body which is filled with light comprehendeth all things.

3 Nephi 20:32
 Then shall their watchmen lift up their voice, and with the voice together shall they sing; for they shall see eye to eye.


Deuteronomy 32:10
10 He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.



Proverbs 7:2

Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.

Psalms 17:8

Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings,