A Deeper Beauty

I recently had the opportunity to visit Seattle, Washington. One day of my vacation was spent at the famous Pike's Market. It was quite the experience! While walking down the crowded street, I kept spotting various people carrying beautiful bouquets. As I continued to walk through the busy market I found where these beautiful bouquets were being sold. I was mesmerized by each unique arrangement of flowers.

Beautiful flowers. Fresh. Colorful. Variety. Bloomed. I was overwhelmed with their beauty. But... for some reason I couldn't help but think about how they were at their peek and within a few days, the beauty I saw in front of me would become wilted and browned.

Isn't it good to know that our inside beauty... or our true selves, the spirit inside us that truly makes us each our own individual will never come to a peek? As we choose to put effort into productively progressing each day, we will be fresh, colorful, blooming, and beautiful forever, and increasingly so. Our spirits will not wilt, brown, or droop if we don't allow them to.
The temporary beauty I could see was nothing compared to the eternal beauty that can be found inside each of us!

Choosing a Joyful Perspective on Life

Let's take it to the basics.

CHOOSING- a personal choice. The suffix "-ing" implies it is a daily decision.

JOYFUL- 2 Nephi 2:25 "Adam fell that man might be; and men are that they might have JOY."

PERSPECTIVE- What I focus on. 2 Nephi 2:24 "But behold, all things have been done in the wisdom of Him who knoweth all things."

LIFE- Our journey to discover who we are and who we can be. 

In life there are 2 perspectives, our human perspective and the eternal perspective. Often we  are faced with situations that we cannot make sense of through our natural human perspective. It is during these times we can choose to focus on the eternal perspective, knowing that, "all things have been done in the wisdom of Him who knoweth all things." 


No matter what happens in life, we can choose to focus on the eternal perspective.


The more I experience life, the more I realize that what I gain from my life and how I feel about life is all based upon what I choose to focus on. As I choose to focus on the eternal perspective, I am finding JOY in my journey through life.