Book Review: Finding Peace, Happiness, and Joy

May 2007 Issue

Life never was intended to be continually easy. It is punctuated with periods of proving and growth. It is interwoven with difficulties, challenges, and burdens, all for your eternal benefit. What you get is the molding of character, the growth in capacity, and the successful completion of your mortal purpose to be proven and to have joy.”

–Elder Richard G. Scott, from Finding Peace, Happiness and Joy

In his warm, mentoring style, Elder Richard G. Scott counsels readers of Finding Peace, Happiness, and Joy (Deseret Book, $19.95, hardcover) to more fully use the direction the Lord has provided. Satan promotes distraction and would have good people fill their lives with “good things” so there is no room for the “essential ones.”

Elder Scott discusses at length how to obtain spiritual guidance—a key to our happiness and progress—and counsels us how to transform mistakes and tragic disappointments into peace and abounding joy.

Filled with insightful stories and examples, the book encourages the reader while at the same time teaching us with profound apostolic counsel. If we will trust in the Lord’s promises and accept the gifts He offers us, if we are obedient to His commandments, then we too can fulfill the scriptural declaration, “Men are that they might have joy.”

Finding Peace, Happiness, and Joy is available at Deseret Book and LDS stores and at DeseretBook.com.