Since this is Mother’s Day we want to honor all our Moms. We are more grateful to you than you can imagine. Our message for today is on the “Secret to Happiness.” I believe that I could say without fear of contradiction that one of the secrets to happiness is to have a good Mom. That’s not always possible, but for those of us who have been so fortunate, we can say that it is one of the great blessings of life. And so today we salute those women who have loved us and poured their lives into ours.

In 1816, a small group of miners claimed to have mined a large amount of gold and silver from the Rocky Mountains. They hid their wealth and swore each other to secrecy. And, for the most part they kept their secret. But one of the miners, a man named Thomas Beale, wrote a letter pinpointing the e…