Happiness

“Heavenly Father desires that we find true, lasting happiness. Our happiness is the design of all the blessings He gives us (Gospel Topics, Happiness, https://www.lds.org/topics/happiness?lang=eng).”

Sometimes in life we are able to be blissfully happy. Some days it may seem like those times are far and few between. These past couple of months I have felt like I have been drowning in legal issues dealing with custody of my daughter and it’s been so hard to recognize the rays of sunshine in my life. However, watching my sweet daughter sleep tonight is one of those times where I was filled with peace, love, and happiness because I knew that she was safe and everything was perfect. This is a simple moment in life that I love to savor and hold on to. Recently, I have had more and more reason to find the rays of sunshine in my life. After a year of sadness, heartache, and despair I have finally found my happiness and I am so excited that my daughter and I have a chance at being truly happy. One thing that I have learned over the last two years is that sometimes we have to work to keep our happiness. If we truly want our happiness to last, we treat it differently and we must be willing to put forth the effort to make it last longer. This time I am so willing to do everything that I need to keep my happiness for eternity.

When looking for true happiness we need to be weary of Satan and his temptations. Satan has a good way of disguising true happiness with things that will only temporarily make us happy. He makes those temptations look enticing and promising but under the facade there is nothing more than lies and sadness. Following Satan will never bring us true happiness. He likes us to believe that he will make us happy by tempting us with false happiness. False happiness is happiness that never lasts and that will never truly make us happy in the end. At one point I was faced with a decision to either choose false happiness or true happiness. Satan did a great job of making the false happiness look just as tempting as the true happiness. However, looking past the facade I could see that the happiness that Satan wanted me to choose was actually filled with the same darkness, sorrow, and pain that I had dealt with for the past two years. Looking past the disguise the decision was easy to make. I needed to choose the path that was filled with light, love, and true happiness. The only way to be truly happy and content with life is by following the path that the Savior wants us to follow. His path will always be filled with true happiness; happiness that will last for eternity if we are willing to put forth the work and follow the Lord’s counsel.

Everybody deserves to be happy; truly, blissfully happy. A year ago I never thought that I would find true happiness. It’s been a rough year but things are finally beginning to look up. There will always be trials in life but if we cling to the gospel and to our Heavenly Father little rays of sunshine will light our way and will bring happiness that is beyond anything we could imagine. My little Rae of sunshine has brought so much happiness to my life and now I have been blessed with another ray of sunshine that Heavenly Father has so lovingly brought in to my life. He will bring even more sunshine my way, allowing me to be truly, blissfully happy.