Who Gladdens the Heart?

Who gladdens the heart
And quickens the mind?
God helps us be smart
And teaches what's kind

Each beauty we see
Each good thing we feel
Helps in some degree
To know that God's real

His love is for all
Wherever we be
His love, too, does fall
Upon all that we see

He's found in the sky
Upon the land and sea
He pleases the eye
And does this freely

We cannot deny
Earth sounds His decree
We hear the sound cry
Repent and be free

For, we should see Him
And live as we're meant
To sing His anthem
Till our days are spent

His redeeming song
Is but full of love
With Him, we'll belong
When we rise above



D&C 59: 18
18 Yea, all things which come of the earth,
in the season thereof,
are made for the benefit and the use of man,
both to please the eye and to gladden the heart;

Alma 16: 16
16 And there was no inequality among them;
the Lord did pour out his Spirit
on all the face of the land
to prepare the minds of the children of men,
or to prepare their hearts to receive the word
which should be taught among them
at the time of his coming—


Alma 5: 26
26 And now behold, I say unto you,
my brethren, if ye have experienced a
change of heart, and if ye have felt to sing
the song of redeeming love, I would ask,
can ye feel so now?


Alma 30: 44
44 ...all things denote there is a God;
yea, even the earth, and all things
that are upon the face of it, yea, and its motion,
yea, and also all the planets which move
in their regular form do witness
that there is a Supreme Creator.