Addendum: The Five LDS Ways To Be Happy/To Make Your Life Fuller and More Meaningful Anna McIntire
I found the previous list of ways to be happy in life. It occurred to me that there was more to add. So today I felt these thoughts were important to share as a compliment to those posted earlier.
1. Pray daily, personal, as couples and family prayers. Seeking God with All Our Hearts
"Since 'God is love' (1 John 4:8), the closer we approach Him, the more profoundly we experience love. But because a veil separates this mortality from our heavenly home, we must seek in the Spirit that which is imperceptible to mortal eyes.
Dieter F Uchtdorf
2. Read scriptures daily-"Heaven may seem distant at times, but the scriptures offer hope: 'Ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart' (Jeremiah 29:13)."
Dieter F. Uchtdorf, "The Love of God," Ensign, Nov. 2009, 23
3. Set Personal Goals—Short term/Long term
Have direction in your life, know where you are going, read your patriarchal blessing often. It is your personal scripture received directly from God to YOU.
Your Personal Liahona (compass)
“Your patriarchal blessing is yours and yours alone. It may be brief or lengthy, simple or profound. Length and language do not a patriarchal blessing make. It is the Spirit that conveys the true meaning. Your blessing is not to be folded neatly and tucked away. It is not to be framed or published. Rather, it is to be read. It is to be loved. It is to be followed. Your patriarchal blessing will see you through the darkest night. It will guide you through life’s dangers. … Your patriarchal blessing is to you a personal Liahona to chart your course and guide your way. …
“Patience may be required as we watch, wait, and work for a promised blessing to be fulfilled.”3 Thomas S. Monson, First Presidency Message February 2010
4. Keep a journal—This is an excellent way to become more accountable to Self, God and Family. I have a testimony of journal keeping. I have over the years filled many journal for my posterity. It is my life, and how I lived it. I pray it will be legacy to them. I keep this blog as a way of journal keeping. Where it may not be as complete as my daily life, it is a notation of recognition of God’s hand in my life. It also gives me more gratitude for my family and who they are.
President Spencer W. Kimball challenged every family to “train their children from young childhood to keep a journal of the important activities of their lives, and certainly when they begin to leave home for schooling and missions” (in Conference Report, Oct. 1977, 4; or Ensign, Nov. 1977, 4).
5. Attend the temple regularly—And bear your testimony often. Keeping our temple covenants also means attending the temple regularly, putting action into attendance.
Richard G. Scott, “Temple Worship: The Source of Strength and Power in Times of Need,” Ensign, May 2009, 43–45
"When we keep the temple covenants we have made and when we live righteously … , we have no reason to worry or to feel despondent."
Bearing one’s testimony is like exercise. The more you do it, the stronger you becomes. My patriarchal blessing admonished me to bear mine often. It has, over the years been a great strength to me and my children. I found it was a way for the Lord to allow me to teach my children by the Spirit as they grew up. They, as a result always knew their mother knew Jesus Christ and never doubted.
Note: Compare yesterday's thoughts with today with an LDS twist and it pales the first list. I know that these principles are truth and a formula for our plan of happiness in the world we live in today.
John 17:3
And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
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