On Creation and Gratitude (D&C 18-21)

(18) Everything, literally everything you see, is for you (and everyone else, sharing is important, but still, God was thinking about you). God made them specifically for you, to make you happy and so that you could be surrounded by beauty.

(19) God made them for you so that you could be fed and clothed, so that you would have things to taste and smell. God made them so that your body could be strong and your soul could rejoice.

(20) It makes God really happy that He gets to give you these things, and He cares about how you use them. He doesn’t want you to use more than your fair share of creation, and He doesn’t want you to use the things He’s created to hurt his other kids. He wants them to make you happy and to give you ways to make the people around you happy.

(21) There aren’t a lot of things you can do that really hurt God’s feelings, but one of them is not seeing that He put a lot of work into this world, not being careful with His gift.

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;

19 Yea, for food and for raiment, for taste and for smell, to strengthen the body and to enliven the soul.

20 And it pleaseth God that he hath given all these things unto man; for unto this end were they made to be used, with judgment, not to excess, neither by extorition.

21 And in nothing doth man offend God, or against none is his wrath kindled, save those who confess not his hand in all things, and obey not his commandments.