Happy

Happy!! How does that word make you feel? What images does it bring to mind? Is it a person, a place, a thing? Is it an unattainable goal, a burning desire? Is it the way we all hope to live our lives?

Happy to me has often seemed like all of those things and none of those things all at the same time. Happy is the feeling you get when you see a smile on the face of someone you care about, unless that smile is at the cost of your happiness. Happy is the feeling you experience when you get to see a loved one for the first time in a long time, unless you know it’ll be the last time. Happiness is often a double edged sword that can make you smile, laugh, love, cry, ache, and hate.

Happy can be the greatest feeling in the world. When you have a smile on your face not because you’re forcing it but because you can’t seem to stop. When you feel like everything is going your way. Even when you don’t feel like everything is going your way but you feel like God is on your side working for you.

Happy can be one of the worst feelings imaginable, when you feel like the happy never happens for you. It can hurt to see everyone around you happy when you feel like you can’t catch a break. It can be miserable feeling like you’re the only one going through troubles, through hard times. When you feel like no one is on your side not even God.

What I would like to challenge us all to do is to make someone happy. If you have the ability then do it. Whether it’s meeting a need they have, smiling at them when you pass them in the hall, a kind word even when you don’t feel like you have a kind word to spare. This may improve their happy. It may put them in a better place, and if you do it out of the kindness of your heart then I guarantee it will bring you a greater happiness than you can imagine.