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Today I love...

Lemon scented dish soap
Refraction with soap bubbles
Coming home to birthday beef jerky
Grapefruit colored chemical reactions
Raspberry lemonade in a blender with frozen strawberries and cantaloupe
This song by Brett Eldredge
Pictures from my brother from one of my favorite cities (Shout out, Norfolk VA!)
The feeling when all the dishes are drying and the kitchen is wiped down
Sleeping in (a whole hour, what up 6:30)
Elder Jeffrey R. Holland - especially this BYU address (he's simply the man)
Reminiscing about Navajo tacos with MRS (love you girlie)
And this piece performed by Corinne Bailey Rae

Today I miss...

Virginia
The mission
Davie

Today I will...

Continue to strive for both happiness and a contrite spirit as I seek out God's will.



I know that happiness comes from finding out and following the Lord's will.

From the great German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer: "Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral and subject to chance."

"Happiness cannot come from without, it must come from within. To think that riches and worldly comfort bring happiness is folly - there must be more. Happiness and peace are things found within us." -Helen Keller 

"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 those things are true; for the Lord God hath spoken it." Mosiah 2:41

And lastly, from a talk I recently read from one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ, Elder Richard G. Scott, in 1995, "Your Father in Heaven and His Holy Son know better than you what brings happiness. They have given you the plan of happiness. As you understand and follow it, happiness will be your blessing. As you willingly obey, receive and honor the ordinances and covenants of that holy plan, you can have the greatest measure of satisfaction in this life. Yes, even times of overpowering happiness." 

 Melissa Elizabeth



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