It's a great question, and they're absolutely right. Jesus taught, "I am the way, the truth and the life. No man cometh unto the father but by me."

In no way is this simple drawing meant to remove Christ from our journey. In fact Christ is central to God's great plan of happiness. Everything about the plan of salvation would be null and void without the essential role Jesus plays in it.

Maybe the best answer is that the graphic is not so much a description of how to return to God, but a map of places and events all God's children will pass through on the way back to God's presence.

Jesus is in every step of the plan:

• In the great council in heaven before the earth was created, Jesus volunteered to be the savior of mankind. “Thy will be done, and the glory be thine forever."
• Just like each of us, Jesus was born into the world and received a body of flesh and blood. 
• Jesus lived life on earth and experienced temptation, hunger, fatigue, happiness, pain and more, just as we do. He lived an unblemished life, and most importantly he endured the atonement, taking upon himself the sins, suffering and pains of the world.
• Christ died on the cross – willingly gave up his mortal life – so that we might live.
• Between the time of his death and resurrection, Jesus visited the spirit world where organized the church so that his gospel could be preached to those who had not accepted him during their mortal lives.
• Christ's glorious resurrection made it possible for all mortals to be raised from the dead.
• When each of us faces final judgement, we will stand at the pleasing bar of Christ with a perfect recollection of all our life's deeds and the intentions of our hearts. 
• At that point, we will know with certainty how much of Christ's influence we are comfortable with as we are assigned to an eternal degree of glory.

Even in outer darkness where the influence of Jesus will never be felt, those sons of perdition are consigned to eternal damnation because they rejected Christ.  

So, where is Jesus in the plan of happiness? He is everywhere! He was there before we came to earth and he will be there at the very end.

It is also comforting to know that he is here with us now. Not only does he personally lead the church through living prophets and apostles, he has a profound influence on the lives of those individuals who earnestly seek him and allow him into their lives through prayer, repentance and obedience to his commandments. 

Surely, this is the way to happiness.

This obsession reached a new high this last weekend when we attended the annual Board Game Bash in Austin, Texas. It was a truly humbling experience. We thought we knew board gaming until we attended this gaming convention. We saw board games that we've never even thought could exist: Board games that take hours just to set up, games that take up 8 or 9 tables, games whose pieces are so delicate it makes you nervous just to watch, and everything in between. And, this isn't even a big convention, or so we're told. 

However, amidst all this, there were two things that stuck out to us more than just the variety of games we witnessed. We saw a variety of people too. They all loved games, this we all held in common. And do you know what else? We never saw a single person tuned out from the world, distracted by the ever-present cell phone. This was amazing. Over 300 people, and everyone had better things to do than see what they had missed on social media. No one ever put a game on hold because something 'better' came up on his screen. Even when people seemingly had nothing to do, their phone was in their pocket!

The other thing that astonished us was how much mutual respect there was for everyone, and everything. For example, the convention had a library of games to choose from. Nobody was there, standing guard, to check games in or out. It was simply, 'if you take it, bring it back' - no questions asked. The same went for your individual games; if you left them on a table while you went to lunch...then they'd be there when you returned. 

As we pondered what we had witnessed during our return trip home, we concluded we liked what we saw. We liked it very much. Nowadays you hear so much of how you must watch your back at all times and how everyone is growing more and more disconnected as a result of social media. We didn't see any of that in Austin at this convention. We saw social interaction and not social disconnect; we saw warm smiles instead of cold hearts. We saw games bring people together, and it was fantastic!

Here are some photos we took of the event.

What's your favorite board game? Leave a comment below and let us know!

Here's some photos taken of the event, and published here by Board Game Bash!

As we posted over the weekend the survey results had come in. Well, now the winners of the two $50 Amazon.com gift cards have been selected. Congratulations to K. Bailey and T. Ashely! 

We'd like to thank everyone for your feedback and support on this first round questionnaire, and don't worry, we didn't forget about you. Each of you will be receiving an email later today with your own coupon code to use towards your next purchase.  To help keep things interesting, we will be posting some new products for sale in the coming days so stay tuned for that. 

Thanks once again and have a great day to everyone!

Each participant in the survey who provided an email address will receive an email with your coupon code for a percentage off your next purchase. 

We have heard your responses and have already shared some of your quotes on our website and on Pinterest. We are also in the process of uploading new products to our site, via your suggestions so please keep and eye out for that. 

If we really get our act together, we might even have some fun and interesting stats to post later as well. 

Once again, thanks to all who participated in the survey and all who have participated to help us simply spread the Gospel!

With Pinterest, we have boards to share some of your quotes and comments, to share things that make us happy, and to share pictures of people wearing the T-shirts. We'd like to use this to help spread the simplicity of the Gospel (and the Plan of Salvation) to as many people as we can. 

We're hoping to help share happy thoughts in general on our Twitter feed, as well as keep you up to date on new products or offers. 

Follow our boards and our feed and help us spread the Word!

It was a thrill for me to see this little thing I created go out in the world and come full circle back to Houston. And it didn’t even go though Utah!

But I know it’s circulating in Utah too. An old friend who used to live in Houston noted on Facebook this week that while traveling by train from Salt Lake City to Provo he saw someone board the train wearing one of the shirts. I think that’s so cool!

Obviously, if people buy shirts, they’re going to wear them, but the little kid in me just gets so excited to see and hear of people boldly going out with this message.

And that’s really the whole point – to have a way to quietly, subtly share the gospel of Jesus Christ. When people see the graphic and ask about it, an opportunity arises to explain that life has a purpose, that God loves His children and wants us to return to Him. It’s a chance to bear testimony of simple, life-altering truths.

So, have you worn your shirt out in public? What kind of response did you get? Tell us your story in the comments below or on Facebook.

This is very exciting! 

Some months ago, I was teaching a youth Sunday School class, and in the course of the lesson I drew a simplified Plan of Happiness on the board, as I have done many times. Some of the kids had never seen it, and once they figured it out, they got excited.

"I get it!" they said. "That's so cool!" they said. "You should put that on a shirt!" they said.

"Hmm. Why not?" I said.

So I did. And I've been surprised and thrilled at the response! Every time I wear it, people light up and ask me where they can get one. 

That's why I've created this site: to share this simple idea and help spread the news about God's Great Plan of Happiness.

So, what brings you joy? What makes you happy?