Hope and Healing...

http://lds.org/pages/lifting-burdens?lang=eng

Hopefully this link works. I watched this video the other day and my heart and soul was powerfully reminded of how very, very blessed I am...how blessed we all are. Lately I have been feeling stuck, kind of directionless, and lost, and inturn feeling very negative about my life, my potential, and where I'm going. After having some long deep conversations, reading my scriptures, a lot of prayer, and watching this video I feel the fog lifting. I feel hope beginning to float up again and I am putting a lot more effort into staying positive. Being happy is a choice and I am realizing first hand that people almost always find what they are looking for. As I thought about that I remembered that story about the two wolves below...

An old Cherokee is teaching his grandson about life. "A fight is going on inside me," he said to the boy.
"It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. One is evil - he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego." He continued, "The other is good - he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. The same fight is going on inside you - and inside every other person, too."
The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather, "Which wolf will win?"
The old Cherokee simply replied, "The one you feed."

So, now that I have stepped back and regrounded myself I am going to feed the wolf that makes me happy; the wolf of peace, the wolf of hope, the wolf of love and gratitude. I am choosing to be happy. No matter where any of us are in life we can always find things that are wrong, or ways in which we feel jipped and neglected and unloved. It is easy to feel or say things like, "I'll be happy when..." and those thoughts only breed our unhappiness. So, I am going to work really hard on looking for the good and choosing to be happy right now, not someday when...but right now!