Look on the Bright Side

This evening, I had the opportunity to share a spiritual thought with a few families in my ward, and I thought I'd share it with all of you as well.

There is a light side and a dark side to pretty much everything in life. If you wanted to, you could focus on the negative aspects of life, which would ultimately make you miserable, or you could focus on the positive aspects, which would make you happier and make the world seem like a brighter place. Neither perspective actually changes anything except your own emotions. The world is still going to have its bright side and its darker side, no matter which side you decide to focus on. But if people could increase their happiness by looking for the good in the world rather than focussing on the bad, why would anyone choose to focus on the bad?

Because God wants us to be happy, He slipped a little bit of goodness into virtually everything in though world, even though, for our own personal growth, there also has to be a good deal of unpleasantness in this life. We have to endure and learn from the unpleasantness of life, but for the sake of our own happiness, it would be wise of us to consciously focus on that which is good.