Who Doesn't Want That?

Good morning everyone! Happy Tuesday! Julie, thanks for my cup of hot water. And thanks just for your happy mood and smiling and just encouraging me! For today's writing, I'm just going to share some thoughts. I'm going to attach my devotional for the day by Pastor Greg Laurie.

Happiness. Don't we all want it? The reality is we don't always get it. We don't always get what we want right? I guess what I'm thinking about is this. If you are someone that is trying and working so hard to make another person happy... If it's frustrating you and discouraging you because you can't do that, then I sugget you stop doing it when you get to the point where you are feeling
so overwhelmed and burned out I suggest leave the other person alone. Stop doing that because you will only end up transferring your frustrations and anger to the person you're trying to make happy. Friends, God is the only one that can truly make you happy. Other humans, may try to make others happy. Folks, I'm thinking we just need to get to the level of feeling content. God will help us with that if we ask! From experience, the happiness is temporary or intermittent. You want permanent happiness? Try God?! Have you tried Him?

A Surprising Source of Joy


By Greg Laurie
Praise the LORD! Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, who delights greatly in His commandments.—Psalm 112:1
Years ago I was in my backyard and saw a brightly colored bird nestled in the grass. It was not the kind of a bird that is typically seen in the wild. It was the kind of bird someone would have in a cage. I thought maybe it was someone’s pet that had flown away.
I also noticed that my German Shepherd was looking intently at the bird. I thought, “That bird’s days are numbered. His minutes are numbered.” So I got down on the bird’s level and put my finger out. Sure enough, he jumped right on my finger. I walked into the kitchen with this beautiful little bird sitting on my finger. Cathe and I decided it must be someone’s pet bird that got away. We borrowed a cage from a neighbor down the street, set it up on the counter, and opened the door. The little bird couldn’t get in there fast enough. Immediately he was hopping from perch to perch, chirping away. Happy days were here again.
We may think it seems cruel to put the poor bird in a cage. But that bird didn’t want to be free. He didn’t see the cage as something that kept him confined; he saw it as a barrier that kept my German Shepherd out..
In the same way, if you want to be happy, you will live within certain parameters. Psalm 112:1 says, “Blessed is the man who fears the Lord, who delights greatly in His commandments” (NKJV). The word blessed could be translated “happy happy.” In other words, super happy is the man or woman who fears the Lord and delights greatly in His commandments.
The way to be a happy person will be found in what we do as well as in what we don’t do.

Pharrell: Happy