Posted on 10/07/2015 7:26:27 AM PDT by Salvation
That's why he/she/it created beer!
This is the stuff for the itching ears. And where I work it’s the women who eat this up.
I figure I can put up with unhappiness here on earth and strive for happiness in heaven.
Happiness as the general overall experience of the totality of one's life depends on whether one is good man who obeys and follows God's commands or a bad man who disobeys God.
Another one is the story of finding Jsus in the temple talking with the priests.
It ends with “And he went home with them and was obedient to them.” I might be paraphrasing.
Another one is the story of finding Jesus in the temple talking with the priests.
It ends with “And he went home with them and was obedient to them.” I might be paraphrasing.
#18. I don’t believe that.
O.K.,
‘round two’,
I am content in all that I experience in life, today.
I am content in strewing seed for the wild birds, and watching their antics.
I am content in watching the sun rise, and moon rise, from my door and window, each day, weather permitting.
I am content, in all of my infirmaties, considering THE alternative.
Does this make me ‘happy’?
Maybe not, but then, having been in the depths of unhappiness while arguing ‘to be or not to be’ with myself in my earlier years, I have gone from “I’m ok with that” to “I’m content.”
Clap along if you feel that's what you want to do
I thought God wanted us to carry our cross and follow Him?
I actually do believe that God wants us to be happy.
Need you to talk to my brother. He lost his wife last year ALS. He lost his position with a company he worked for for over 25 years a couple of years before that. He has two adult children battling drug addiction...one is sober for the moment. He is losing his home due to costs of battling his wife’s illness and children’s medical and legal problems. He is alternately finding comfort in Jesus Christ and still devolving into despair. I pray for him. I pray for him.
God loves us, He is our Father....He wants us to be happy in His Word....His plan. Not our plan, His plan.
God can only do for us what God can do through us. The only God we can understand is God within. We are constantly choosing, and it is our choices that drive what happens to us. Thus, expressing Cosmic Joy is our job.
“It is the Father’s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom,” but God can only give you what you will accept and claim.
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