HAPPY FOR ANOTHER

HAPPY FOR ANOTHER Are you HAPPY For another WHEN good things Happen to another Human being Or are you One of these people Strangling in your own Jealousy and resentment That you can’t find JOY AND HAPPINESS For another human being “That I may…….. REJOICE in the JOY of your people……..” Psalm 106:5 BE HAPPY For one another LOVE-one another “A new command I GIVE YOU: Love one another As I have loved you So you must Love one another By this-EVERYONE Will know That you are my disciples If you love one another” John 13:34 Be happy for others WISH THEM JOY So much can And so much does Go wrong in our lives I certainly understand Why we might feel Jealousy and resentment WHEN we go to Wedding after wedding And we have yet To find our own life partner BE HAPPY for them anyway LOVE doesn’t cost a thing FEEL HAPPINESS for them WISH THEM WELL The infertile mother Whose friend after friend ARE beginning Their families The man or woman Who can’t find job While seeing their friends Have great careers It takes A TRULY GENEROUS HEART For one to feel joy For someone else WHEN that same joy Is being denied to us And yet as Christians That is exactly What we are called upon To do Be happy For one another LET THE JOY IN Feeling joy For someone else Doesn’t take anything From you “YOU make known to me The PATH of life You will FILL ME With joy In your presence With eternal pleasure At your right hand” Psalm 16:11 So have a BIG HEART Lean STRONGLY on God Our ONE great love Who UNDERSTANDS our pain And be HAPPY FOR ANOTHER For LOVE Doesn’t cost a thing Robert P. Wallman 6-19-15 Ps INSPIRED by an article in LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE by Sister Joyce Rupp, O.S. M.