Happiness Is, To Know The Saviour. . .

Okay everyone. It’s time for another question. What makes you happy? I mean really happy. Not something so inane as, “Don’t worry. Be Happy.” Walked by someone just yesterday and she was shining as she showed pictures of her grandchildren. She said to us in the line we have all said or wanted to say, “If I knew grand kids were this great I would have bypassed having children.” Funny, right?
There have been times when I have written in this column, how happiness is based on a happening and how it is more important to have joy from God. Make sense and most definitely right, but being happy is good too. I think there is more to happiness then I have rightfully given it over the years. Maybe it has something to do with what my doctor said, “you are at that age you know?”. Thanks.
As we have all traveled through life, we have each experienced happiness. We have. And I think it is important to have happiness in our lives when it takes the edge off those things that don’t bring happiness. Things that make us sad and bring tears to our eyes. If happiness wasn’t to be part of who we are and take the edge off what life throws at us, I don’t think God would have given it to us.
So, where do we find this happiness? For men, it might be in that car or motorcycle or boat or rod. Yes, that may make us happy for a little while, but the paint will chip and the oil needs changing or, we want another new one. It is happiness for a little while and that is wonderful. For women it could be that job, or dress or checking to see if he is standing at the front of the church. Again, happy for a time, wonderful, then we discover a wedding does not make a marriage. It takes work that some of us enjoy and that makes us happy.
Was I happy owning my 1928 Pierce-Arrow? Sure. But if it gave real happiness wouldn’t I still have it today? Would we be happy with the wedding and the children and the house and the job and the . . . I know they were, at the time? And this is where truth is. Some things or some people bring us happiness for a time and some bring it for a life time. Thank God for both. As we grow and mature, well, most of us mature, things change, life changes and we find happiness in different ways. My mom used to say the things that made her most happy were the little things. Maybe that is why she gave me her dad’s nickel with the Lord’s prayer engraved on the back. All of you can think of what makes you happy. Happy yesterday, happy today and into tomorrow. Take this amazing emotion God so lovingly implanted in who we are and celebrate it.
Look in the mirror each and every day and tell yourself what is making you happy today. If someone makes you happy, let them know. If you are happy in your heart, look into the mirror and realized that being happy is being where God has placed you today. Nothing more, nothing less and maybe that is what mom was talking about.
Something to think about
Rob