Happy To Be Me (God wants us happy), part 5
“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 question because I associated God with suffering, not happiness. I thought the same...
Happy To Be Me (self-actualized or actually happy?), part 4
“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 to get our turn at life only to find out we have to turn over our lives to...
Happy To Be Me (it’s my turn), part 3
“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 can’t tell you how many friends ask this question or claim that now is their...
Happy To Be Me (grumpy without God), part 2
“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, the members call this “being irritable and unreasonable without knowing it.”...
Happy To Be Me (a fine line), part 1
“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 book The Power of Positive Thinking a long time ago, but doubted it’d...
Happiness and Suffering (suffering’s purpose is for you to find yours), part 7
“Job found his legacy through the grief he experienced.” Streams In The Desert by L. B. Cowman, p. 344 “If Joseph had never been Egypt’s prisoner, he would have never been Egypt’s governor. The iron chain that bound his feet brought about the golden chain around his neck.” selected Streams In The Desert by L. B....
Happiness and Suffering (the purposes of pain: change), part 6
“We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing.” Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend, authors of Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No to Take Control of Your Life One of the absurdities of life is our perspective about change. A lot of us don’t like it. We resist it even though...
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