Understanding Happiness as a Choice, Part 1 (TMF:2400)
Friday, July 19, 2024
Peace to Live By: Understanding Happiness as a Choice, Part 1 (TMF:2400) - Daniel Litton
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Most people see their personal happiness as dependent upon their circumstances. I do it at times, though, I am trying more and more to get out of this mindset. Why is this bad—to base our happiness on our external circumstances? Well, it’s an incorrect line of thinking because true happiness comes from our relationships with God. It doesn’t come from whether things are seemingly going good or seeminelying going bad. It doesn’t come from how many people like us today versus how many people are upset with us. When we know we are in right relationship with the Creator, we can truly be happy and spend time with him on a daily basis. I think that the more and more I live out my life, I have come to realize that the less the things I want, the less the things I desire, the happier and freer I feel. The very essence of the feeling of wanting, whatever it is that we want, means that things are incomplete right now. Deep down in the realm of how things really are, we know that’s not true. Like I said, what really matters is that we are in right relationship with God.