Father's Day Best Present Ever

A few years ago I won some big awards for a column I wrote about my three fathers. My dad, my step dad and my Heavenly Father. I wanted to share that with you today, but I can not find it. So, I am going to tell you about my Father's Day.

When I got divorced from my first wife, we went to church all of the time, and it seemed that after the divorce the children decided that they would not go as much, or at all in some cases. I also quit going for a long time, blaming a lot of people for things they said, and things they had done, and I won't get into the feelings and the reasons right now, but someday I will share that.

For the last year or so, I have had a huge desire to go to church again, and it has really been hard to go by myself. So, when each of my five children asked me what I wanted for Fathers Day, I told each of them, for you to go to church with me. Some laughed, some said maybe and some said no way.

Last night, my eighteen year old daughter Chelsea asked if I was going to church today. I told her I was, and she said she would go with me. I must have had a very strange look on my face. She told me that if I wanted that for Father's Day, then that is what I would get.

I KNOW that it is hard for Chelsea to go to church. She is my child that has tatoos, a nose ring, and an eyebrow ring, and I know she knew that people would be looking at her differently than people look at people that don't stand out.

We got there, and sat down, and we had a good time. The primary sang "We're so glad when daddy comes home" and she mouthed the words to me and kissed me on the cheek when it said they do so in the song.

Her cell phone was going off, luckily she had it on vibrate only and she was texting to her friends that she was in church. Most didn't believe her. After Sacrament Meeting, all of the dads were given Sweet Rolls. I gave mine to my daughter. That was the least I could do for someone that did something that was so hard for her to do.

I told her that she will be a Relief Society President someday and she will use her tattoos as lessons of when she was young. She told me that someday I would have hair... Hmmm.

And she and my nine year old made me breakfast today too.

I am a very happy Father this Fathers Day!

Hugs make the world a better place!

For a couple of weeks I have been trying to get people to hold BE HAPPY signs with me. I know it would make a lot of people happy. When I was telling my son Nick about this he forwarded this video to me. Take a look, and then go out and hug some people. Come on, be happy.

Dance, Dance and help make the world a better place!

What are these humans doing? Dancing. Many humans on Earth exhibit periods of happiness, and one method of displaying happiness is dancing. Happiness and dancing transcend political boundaries and occur in practically every human society. Above, Matt Harding traveled through many nations on Earth, started dancing, and filmed the result. The video is perhaps a dramatic example that humans from all over planet Earth feel a common bond as part of a single species. Happiness is frequently contagious -- few people are able to watch the above video without smiling.

Be Happy Signs

I posted a note on my Facebook status today asking people to help me hold up signs that say, BE HAPPY. Guess how many people have said they would do it. NONE. How many people asked me if it would make them happy, more than zero.

I will make you happy. It will give you joy, and you will give others joy. How many times have you been down and low and you have seen something that made you smile. The kid playing at the park, the rain, the walk, the here it is, the smiling people holding signs that say, BE HAPPY.

If you don't believe that it works, make a cheap sign that says BE HAPPY and hold it up in front of your family, friends, church friends, take a photo of it and put it on your Facebook Status and it will make you smile, and them.

What do you have to lose, a smile.