Gratitude

In Young Women's, we had a lesson on how to have joy . . . NOW!. The girls had the challenge to start a Gratitude Journal and work on it during the past week, writing down five things each day that they were grateful for. We were excited to see that quite a few took the challenge and reported this week on the difference that it had made as they started looking for the positive in each day. It's a good exercise for anyone to try when you realize that what you have is enough and more.

"Both abundance and lack of abundance exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend. When we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present ~ love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature, and personal pursuits that bring us happiness ~ the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience heaven on earth."
- President Thomas S. Monson