by skimhenson | Oct 14, 2021 | Happy To Be Me, On The Other Side of Trying Hard
“God is the one who gave us the deep desire for happiness. He delights in our delight.” Alli Worthington If you asked me before now if God wanted us to be happy, I would’ve given the expected answer and said yes. In my head, though, I would have questioned the...
by skimhenson | Oct 13, 2021 | Happy To Be Me, On The Other Side of Trying Hard
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” Mahatma Gandhi So far, I’ve written about the upside of unhappy qualities like self-doubt and grumpiness that is our weaknesses keep us close to God. I’ve also written about trying...
by skimhenson | Oct 12, 2021 | Happy To Be Me, On The Other Side of Trying Hard
“Our difficulty (and unhappiness) is not that we don’t know God’s will. Our discomfort (and unhappiness) comes from the fact that we do know His will, but we do not want to do it.” Henry Blackaby, paraphrased Enough about God … when’s it my turn? I...
by skimhenson | Oct 11, 2021 | Happy To Be Me, On The Other Side of Trying Hard
“God can’t give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.” C.S. Lewis I had to laugh when Prophet Jim Reilly told a friend that even though he had it all, he continued to be “grumpy” until he got ahold of God. In 12-step programs,...
by skimhenson | Oct 7, 2021 | Happy To Be Me, On The Other Side of Trying Hard
“Believe in yourself. Have faith in your abilities. Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers, you cannot be successful or happy.” Norman Vincent Peale Peale’s quote and others like it sounded foreign to me and still do some days. I read his...