Deep Roots are Not Reached by the Frost

This morning I talked with my roommate about how sometimes when I'm really happy it's hard to focus because all I want to do is talk to everyone else and share my joy with them! I don't want to focus on reading anything or focusing on school work...I want to talk to people and smile and laugh and just talk and talk about how blessed life can be, because that's what my life is and always has been.  Now, mind you, there have been times when I've been blinded from seeing those blessings due to my own internal conflicts, but that doesn't mean my life wasn't blessed at those times. After I talked with her I was reading Alma 22.  Can I just say that Alma and Amulek, Ammon, Aaron, and the other sons of Mosiah went through A LOT to share the gospel.  They had such faith and strength and confidence in the Lord and thus were able to have a good deal of success.  But something else I noticed:  along with their faith, strength, and confidence, they also had a great de...

Feeling down?   Turn on an upbeat classical piece and dance around the kitchen as if you're the most spectacular ballroom dancer in the entire universe.  Let every worry, sorrow or fear drop at your feet for just 1 minute and dance your heart out.  Grab a roommate, a sister, a brother - anyone!  Let that music guide your movement, but don't think about it.  Just listen and move those feet. Those worries and sorrows and fears will stay on the ground if you let them.  Keep that smile on your face and move forward with a perfect brightness of hope, with a love of God and of all men. It was hard for me to do that today.  And I didn't do it as well as I could have.  I didn't even want to dance; my roommate asked me too because she was listening to a string quartet.  Because of the smile on her face and the work I knew she'd gone through to put it there I accepted the outstretch hand and danced.  I'm very glad I did in the end.  ...