Does the above image make you happy? It makes us happy too. š Elder Holland says that God wants us to be happy. He shares 4 tips how we can do that. Here is what he says.
I wish to comment on Nephiās phrase about living āafter the manner of happinessā (2 Nephi 5:27). It suggests a quest for happiness, not necessarily happiness itself.
I do not think God in his glory or the angels of heaven or the prophets on earth intend to make us happy all the time, every day in every way, given the testing and trial this earthly realm is intended to provide. As President James E. Faust (1920ā2007) once phrased it: āHappiness is not given to us in a package that we can just open up and consume. Nobody is ever happy 24 hours a day, seven days a week.ā But my reassurance to you today is that in Godās plan we can do very much to find the happiness we do desire. We can take certain steps, we can form certain habits, we can do certain things that God and history tell us lead to happiness.
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