Good Attitudes Are Life's Safeguards

Life is full of challenges and trials.  Have you ever wondered how to safeguard your life to make sure you end up having happiness?  I know I've often wondered how to get through life unscathed by sorrow and hardships.

I've learned through much thought and prayer that we are given trials out of love.  God places challenges in our paths to help guide and mold us into what He knows we can become.  He also gives us our free agency to choose how to act when obstacles are put in our path.  It's our decision to either accept our trials with a good attitude and look to learn from them or let them burden us and try to hide and run from them.   I know that God is our LOVING Heavenly Father and He wants the best for us.  When we accept our struggles with a good attitude and recognize that they are given to us to learn, we will find ourselves better than before.  We will find happiness.  Good attitudes really are life's safeguards.

Trials are an inescapable part of life.  They are going to come, but if we receive them with a good attitude we will end up where God ultimately wants us to be.  We will learn what we need to learn and find true happiness. 

Whenever our Mission President would receive a call from a distressed missionary facing adversity, he would reply to them by saying "Good, you are going to learn something today."  Remember that good attitudes are the catalyst to learning.  When we positively turn to God in our trials and ask Him to reveal to us what we are to learn, He will give us the answer.  For those of you who are a lot like me and didn't recognize that we need good attitude to stay happy in times of sorrow, you can never be too far lost or miserable to start having a good attitude.  If you start having  a good attitude right now, you will find happiness and will end up on the road God wants you to be on.