Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Happy...

Happy… I was asked recently to define that. Just what does it mean to ‘be happy’?

Is ‘being happy’ connected to other people? Situations? Circumstances?

Is there a price tag attached? Or a location?

Is it an emotion? Or a state of mind?

Should we always BE ‘happy’?

Do we have some right to ‘be happy’?

What does it take so that we can in fact ‘be happy’?

There are dozens of scriptures that come to mind. A little searching turns up dozens more….too many to list, and certainly too many to brush aside.

In defining this thing called ‘happy’, I will begin by eliminating what it is NOT.