Choose to be Happy

I really just had a great Sunday today. I feel like most of my Sundays have just bee really great lately. There's something about being taught and having discussions with people who are your peers, who are your same age, going through the same things that really just brings the spirit so much more and makes the lessons that the Lord wants me to learn so much more apparent. There was something that was strongly emphasized today that I have been trying to work on this semester and that is that we can choose how we react to things in our lives. It is inevitable that we are going to have struggles. We all have things that frustrate us and we all have weaknesses. We all have trials that are put in our lives to refine us and to make us better. We can let those things in our lives, whatever they may be, and be mad, sad, frustrated, or just let them drag us down or we can choose to be happy. That's something that my Dad tells my sisters and I all the time. Choose to be happy. Choose to be the person that is always happy. Choose to be the person that sees the good in everything. Choose to be the person that others look to for encouragement and choose to be the person that other people want to be around. Really when it all comes down to it, choose to be happy.