Habit #4 Enjoy the day- if not, make it worthwhile.

President Ezra Taft Benson counseled:

 "Men and women who turn their lives over to God will discover that he can make a lot more out of their lives than they can. He will deepen their joys, expand their vision, quicken their minds, strengthen their muscles, lift their spirits, multiply their blessings, increase their opportunities, comfort their souls, raise up friends, and pour out peace. Whoever will lose their life in the service of God will find Eternal Life. We once knew well our Elder Brother and our Heavenly Father. We rejoiced together at the prospects of earth life that could make it possible for us to have a fulness of joy. We could hardly wair to demonstrate to our Father and our Brother, the Lord, how much we loved them and how we would be obedient to them in spite of the earthly opposition of the evil one. Now we are here. Our memories are veiled. We are showing God and ourselves what we can do. Nothing is going to startle us more when we pass through the veil to the other side than to realize how well we know our Father and how familiar His face is to us. God loves us. He is watching us. He wants us to succeed. We will know some day that He has not left one thing undone for the eternal welfare of each of us - friends in Heaven that we cannot now remember who yearn for our victory. This is our day to show what we can do - what life and sacrifice we can daily, hourly, instantly make for God. If we give our all, we will get His all from the greatest of all. Give God your best, and His best will come back to you." (Ensign, December 1988, p. 6)


Apostle George Q. Cannon:


"We of all people should be happy and joyful. When the clouds seem the darkest and most threatening, and as though the storm is ready to burst upon us with all it's fury, we should be calm, serene and undisturbed, for if we have the faith we profess to have, we know that God is in the storm, in the cloud, or in the threatened danger, and that He will not let it come upon us only as far as it is necessary for our good and for our salvation; and we should even then, be calm and rejoice before God and praise Him...I know that there is a power in the religion of Jesus Christ to sustain men even under these circumstances, and they can rejoice in them."
(George Q. Cannon, Journal of Discourses, 15:275)