As a matter of fact, the reason we were in that lovely room, is because our kitchen windows were broken by a large tree branch, we didn’t have the funds to repair it, our house was so cold it was not liveable, giving us nowhere to live excepting the homes of our gracious grown children. Also, my husband had just had his second eye surgery, (unsuccessful, I might add), and couldn’t work for a month – we had no insurance and no income…
But wait! I simply listed a set of our circumstances. Why would this affect my happiness? More like, why DOES it?
Vocabulary.com states that, “Happiness is that feeling that comes over you when you know life is good and you can’t help but smile. … Happiness is a sense of well-being, joy, or contentment. When people are successful, or safe, or lucky, they feel happiness.”
This is what we are hearing out there. That is what we see in our fairy tale movies. But what if life isn’t “good”?
I think the key word to that whole quote, “And they lived happily ever after.”, is LIVED. I believe it is all in the way we choose to live.
The verse,
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