"No thanks, I choose life!"

 Sid the Sloth's sarcastic statement encompassing his lack of faith in the plan before him is funny and cute, but can (if you try really hard) teach us an important lesson.  We have so many choices before us everyday and sometimes we can get distracted by what we think we deserve.  We have ample opportunity to sit down and feel sorry for ourselves, to get upset when things don't turn out right, or to believe ourselves to be all alone in our trials. As hard as some of the circumstances we may find ourselves in may be, we have the ability to look at them and say, "No thanks, I choose life!" Choose to live a life full of happiness, peace, joy, and laughter! That option is up to you!  

One of my greatest heroes, President Dieter F. Uchdtorf said, "There will always be things to complain about—things that don’t seem to go quite right. You can spend your days feeling sad, alone, misunderstood, or unwanted. But that isn’t the journey you had hoped for, and it’s not the journey Heavenly Father sent you to take. Remember, you are truly a daughter/ son of God!"  

We can take that understanding of who we are and apply it in our lives to live up to our potential. We are children of God! We have the divine power to choose to be happy in this life!  If we look to Jesus Christ as our example, the path to true happiness is unfolded before us and all we have to do is take that first step and follow it.