Delight

I read Cocoa's blog all the time, because she is so fun. This year she picked a word as her theme for the year, and I'll do the same. My word is DELIGHT.

A high degree of pleasure or enjoyment; joy; rapture

I like it, because it describes two of my heroes, Gordon B. Hinckley and Grandma Weedon. Instead of gloom and doom, they chose to see the bright side of things--to find delight. GBH's attitude towards people was the same. "We have many friends and many associations with people who are not of our faith, with whom we deal constantly, and have a wonderful relationship...Recognize their virtues; don't look for their faults. Look for their strengths and their virtues that well be helpful in your own life." Grandma Weedon is the perfect example of what I'm trying to say. She doesn't see faults but their virtues. She delights in her family and friends regardless of their faults. She delights in all her blessings instead of always wanting more.

So like Cocoa I want to ameliorate but do so specifically. I want to improve in my ability to choose DELIGHT like Grandma and Gordon, because I believe it is a choice. Brigham Young said that the Lord “gives a little to his humble followers today, and if they improve upon it, tomorrow he will give them a little more, and the next day a little more. He does not add to that which they do not improve upon” (Discourses of Brigham Young, sel. John A. Widtsoe [1941], 90)

Today is the first day of the rest of my life, which I intend to live with delight, as I've defined here. "With the Lord's help I can improve. I just need to be still enough to listen, humble enough to accept, strong enough to do what He asks of me." Cocoa