Skip to main content

Pursuit of happiness

Image
By
This is another page from my ninth book called "Dear God". I was inspired to write this book after writing "I am voting for God" on my blog. It continues in that format. Short letters (or prayers) to God. It gives me an opportunity to write more and write to God at different moments in my life.
___________________

Dear God,

I am resting here and remembering the happy times. The happy moments. The good times. They say that life is how we make it. I want to make the times happy as long as I have the choice to. That cool breeze on a Sunday evening after I took a bath and then prayed. That sunset after a hot day. That feeling of accomplishment after a morning of house painting. These moments I get to write.

Happiness and our pursuit of happiness is part of the human condition. You created us with the ability to feel joy. To feel motivated. To feel accomplished. To want happiness. You want us to be happy. You want us to have hearts full of joy. You want peaceful joy for us. You want that joy that brings us closer to You. Happiness in faith and reliance on You.

Guide me to be happy doing the right things and being in the right places as You prescribed. I love walking. To me that is the best form of exercise. I also appreciate doing work around the house. I also find happiness in cooking healthy meals. I do not do enough of these. Help me take better care of my body, mind and spirit and see the joy in this. I am happy that I can write to You. I am happy to follow Godly content on my social streams that remind me of what is good.

Help me to give thanks for happiness, to never take this for granted. Show me how to share this joy with others, to spread the light you have given me. Let my happiness be a reflection of Your love, a beacon that guides me and those around me towards a life filled with purpose and contentment. And when the shadows fall, when happiness seems distant, remind me of these moments, these tangible reminders of Your grace, and grant me the strength to seek joy again.
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Google Pay in Trinidad

By
Update : It is prepaid and credit cards not debit. Linx on facebook said that the Linx machines do not fascilitate Google Pay.
1 comment
Read more

The success of failure

By
It is 358am and I have decided to write. Context matters. Our context matters when we write and read. We could read the same thing and get different meanings. Definitions matter also. We may define things differently. For example, what is success? What is failure? Also, do I just define success and say that anything that is not success is failure? What about something like the success of failure? What does that mean? My friend Chatty tells me that this is something writers, philosophers, and even scientists keep rediscovering: meaning is not fixed—it is negotiated by context and definition. Life is a stew of success and failure and in between but never one or the other. We see what we are looking for and things become what we see. This reminds me of something I came across online, "Whoever looks for the good qualities in others will acquire all good qualities within himself," from Habib Umar Bin Hafiz. Do you look for failure or success within others? Take context as the lens...
Post a Comment
Read more

Kindance

By
It is 250am and I have decided to write. Today is Friday. Fridays are the best days of the week. Of course I do not have a topic to write about. I was scrolling through facebook and one post said "In any season we can always plant kindness". Then a nearby post said "My Lord has always been kind to me". It is nice to give and receive kindness and do not forget to be kind to yourself. Imagine if kindness was actually kindance like guidance. My friend Chatty says that if kindness were kindance, it would be more than a good deed — it would be a gentle form of guidance. Kindance would lead the heart toward compassion, encourage goodness without force, and show that sometimes the softest acts can point us in the strongest direction. I was scrolling through youtube and I came across a video that said that "Life has always been unfair". That is one way to look at it. Another way is to consider that this life is just a test and stepping stone for the other life. Ma...
Post a Comment
Read more