Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose
Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose
The decision didn’t make me happy. It didn’t grant me fulfilment. It didn’t bestow peace.
I never liked it. I never sought it. I never wanted it.
It’s been brutally hard. It’s turned everything upside down. And I’ve lost a lot…
So why continue? Why faith? Why Jesus?

Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose
Giving freely is something that should be natural to us. The logic is this simple.
If we define a good deed as an action that assists another individual, superficially, one would think it’s completely possible to accomplish this without a selfish intention.
Many times we will declare how we wish we could replay the past, do something better, re-do a moment in time so that things would be much improved now. In western society, one institution revealed by media to be on the path to destruction is the all-important marriage commitment.
When the ‘storm’ hits and we’re in the middle of a horrible, horrendous, horrific situation, there are two founding responses.
We often find it comforting to judge someone.
Setting a plan in life is a wise move – it allows for focus and diligence.
This very question by its nature is a paradox – why? Because honesty cannot be measured. Either we choose to be honest. Or we don’t. Either we speak truth. Or we don’t.
Sometimes it appears like we’re at the end of the road with humanity.
There are three generic temptations in this world that are difficult to resist; they are subtle to the point that we would think they do us no harm.