{"id":17568,"date":"2019-12-07T05:04:44","date_gmt":"2019-12-07T11:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=17568"},"modified":"2019-12-07T17:37:57","modified_gmt":"2019-12-07T23:37:57","slug":"joy-december-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2019\/12\/joy-december-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Joy, December 7"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Wherefore, <em>cheer up your hearts<\/em>, and remember that ye are free to act for yourselves\u2014to choose the way of everlasting death or the way of eternal life.\u201d<\/p><cite>2 Nephi 10:23<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Is it just me, or do you get the idea that Nephi&#8217;s brother Jacob in the Book of Mormon was a little depressed? He was definitely a little down on the day he engraved on the plates that they were wanderers, mourning out their days (Jacob 7:26). So, when somebody like Jacob who has felt quite low tells us to cheer up our hearts, I think he knows something of what he speaks. He knows the power of mindset.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hey, I can cheer up my heart when someone is thoughtless towards me because I have power to choose my reaction. Hooray for agency! And I can cheer up my heart because I can pray silently anywhere, anytime. I am never alone! I can cheer up my heart because the path to eternal life isn&#8217;t closed when I mess up. The Savior can help me with every step.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"222\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/79031995_2852588878104995_3267864886939484160_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17585\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/79031995_2852588878104995_3267864886939484160_n.jpg 480w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/79031995_2852588878104995_3267864886939484160_n-300x139.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wherefore, cheer up your hearts, and remember that ye are free to act for yourselves\u2014to choose the way of everlasting death or the way of eternal life.\u201d 2 Nephi 10:23 Is it just me, or do you get the idea that Nephi&#8217;s brother Jacob in the Book of Mormon was a little depressed? He was &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2019\/12\/joy-december-7\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Joy, December 7<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,36,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-of-mormon","category-jesus-christ","category-joy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17568"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17599,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17568\/revisions\/17599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}