Happiness

This week in church the message was about something like"Are you Really Happy?" Something like that. I really dont know what was said because I missed the service due to a youth meeting (I need to go back and watch it) anyways It really made me think. I try to have the messages with the youth kind of follow the messages of the main service, so I thought about happiness and I talked with the students about that on Sunday. I concluded this; happiness is a strange thing and it is so hard to understand. What I can understand is this... It is good, we all want it, It is easy to obtain and for some odd reason some people just choose not to get it. They would rather feel sorry for themselves by looking at how bad things are and be unhappy about it. I know that sounds really cruel and insensitive to say, but that is the best way I can understand it. I'll say what I often say to my clients at work and what I got from a John Maxwell book; "Would you rather be a thermometer or a thermostat?" We actually get to decide that every time something starts to bring us down.