Recognizing the Spirit

* Source:  Aug. 1978 Ensign

	When You Have the Spirit	When You Don't Have the Spirit
1	You feel happy, calm, and clear-minded.	You feel unhappy, depressed, confused, and frustrated.
2	You feel generous.	You feel possessive, self-centered, or resentful of demands made on you.
3	Nobody can offend you.	You are easily offended.
4	You wouldn’t mind everybody seeing what you’re doing.	You become secretive and evasive.
5	You are eager to be with people and want to make them happy.	You avoid people, especially members of your family; and you are critical of family members and Church authorities.
6	You are glad when others succeed.	You envy or resent the successes of others.
7	You are glad to attend your meetings and participate in church activities.	You don’t want to go to church, go home teaching, or take the sacrament. You wish you had another church job or no job at all.
8	You feel like praying.	You don’t want to pray.
9	You wish you could keep all the Lord’s commandments.	You find the commandments bothersome, restricting, or senseless.
10	You feel in control—you don’t overeat or sleep too much; you don’t feel uncontrollably drawn to sensational entertainment, lose your temper, or feel uncontrollable passions or desires.	You feel emotions and appetites so strongly that you fear you cannot control them—hate, jealousy, anger, lust, hunger, fatigue.
11	You think about the Savior often and lovingly; you want to know him better.	You hardly ever think of the Savior; he seems irrelevant to your life, or worse, part of a confusing system that seems to work against you.
12	You feel confident and are glad to be alive.	You get discouraged easily and wonder if life is really worth it.