Wednesday, January 11, 2023

DON'T WORRY=BE HAPPY

 

 

 

 

 

 

WITNESS

 

 

8-28-13

 

 

DON’T WORRY-BE HAPPY

 

 

Where do you find your happiness

In today’s world

 

Happiness is defined

As a state of good fortune-

Pleasure-contentment-or joy

 

I’m not talking about fleeting happiness

Not the kind that you get

When you hit a lottery number

Or buy a new car

 

I’m talking about

The kind of happiness

THAT LASTS

The kind that lasts

Regardless of your circumstances

 

DON’T WORRY

BE HAPPY

 

Surveys in today’s world

Tell us

That those who are the most happy

Are those living lives

Dedicated to helping others

 

They are those

Who out of faith

Deliberately set out

To live a life of service

 

And Jesus himself-tells us

 

“Whoever hates his life in this world

Will preserve it for eternal life”                                                                      John 12:25

 

And

 

“Do nothing out of selfish ambition

Or vain conceit

But in humility

Consider others better than yourself

 

Each of us

Should look not only

To our own interests

But also to the interests of others”                                                             Philippians 2:3-4

 

DON’T WORRY

BE HAPPY

 

So whatever

Your state in life is

Whatever your problems are

Take your mind

Off of yourselves

Try to help someone else

With their problems

And your problems

Will get a little lighter

 

Jesus taught us

That in order to find ourselves

We must paradoxically

Die to ourselves

 

DON’T WORRY

-BE HAPPY

 

“Whoever finds his life

Will lose it

And whoever loses his life for my sake

WILL FIND IT”                                                                                   Matthew 10:39

 

It is said that our society

Is becoming

More and more self-focused

And self-seeking

So is it any wonder

That the surveys indicate

A general decline in our happiness

 

So take your mind

Off of yourself

Focus on someone else

 

              and

 

DON”T WORRY-BE HAPPY

 

Robert P. Wallman

8-14-12

 

Ps       Inspired by an article in Living Faith magazine by Monsignor Stephen J. Rossetti

 

 

WITNESS 8-28-13    &    5-7-14 and 1-11-2023

4-23-15

 

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