Have you ever noticed that when we bless someone, and truly do something good for them, we feel happy too? I taught a Relief Society lesson a couple of months ago on Who Did You Help Today? I made up a sheet where every day we could write down who we blessed, what we did, what the outcome was, and what we learned. I handed them out to everyone. Now I don't know if anyone is still using their's, but I am. Since that day, I have been filling mine out every night. I added to it since then, also the same questions on who blessed me that day. So every night I write out who I blessed, how and what happened, and the same for who blessed me.
I have learned so much from filling this sheet out every night. Mostly that when we bless others, it not only makes them happy, but it makes us happy too. This is why Jesus always commanded us to love no matter what. He knew that love makes us happy. When we love in our thoughts, words, and deeds we are happy. When we don't, we make ourselves miserable. Its as simple as that. Love equals happiness.
Our scriptures tell us to "seek to do good". This is different than just doing good if it happens to be infront of us. Seeking to do good I think means looking for ways to do good every day. A great prayer I sometimes say in the morning is "Lord please show me who to bless today, or bring someone my way to bless, or who should I bless today?" Then an opportunity always comes. Blessing others is truly one of the greatest ways to fill the world with happiness. We bring happiness to others, and happiness to our souls as we bless, truly the best gift we can ever give ourselves is to be vessels of love that is filled up and over flowing. There is no greater joy! Being love, is the greatest act of self love there is.
I now seek to do good each day, looking for people to bless, looking for ways to bless, enjoying being a channel of the Savior's love.
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