Yesterday we were visiting with a good friend and while we were talking, her dog, Freckles, came up and sat on my lap. Freckles turned her body so that she was facing the shadows in the corner and she refused to look at anything else. She wanted to get the shadows but couldn't. She was staring so intensely for probably an hour and after a while she even began to shake. I tried to point her in a different direction but she was persistant in finding the shadows. While this may seem silly to all of us, how often do we have a similar attitude?-Morris West"If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine."
Do you ever find that even when things are going well in your life, there is at least one thing to disrupt your happiness? Sometimes I have a talent for focusing in on one or two negative things, when everything else in my life is great! And then I'm upset that life isn't perfect :/ Well life isn't supposed to be perfect. It's practice. God just wants us to get really good at finding the light in our lives.
Yes, sometimes we have trials to face and mountains to climb... but we have to look in the right direction if we are going to "come off conqueror". D&C 10:5http://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/10.5?lang=eng#4
There is light all around us! There is peace, joy, laughter, optimism... Do we seek after these things or do we insist on facing the shadows of our lives?
"Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows." -Helen Keller
I know that we will all find more joy in our lives if we look to the light around us, instead of focusing on shadows. And no matter what we are facing in life, we can have joy as we count our blessings and thank our Father in Heaven for all the light He has given us.
"In sunshine and in shadow we look to Him, and He is there to assure and smile upon us." -Gordon B. Hinckley http://www.lds.org/search?lang=eng&query=sunshine&collection=general-conference
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