I don't really like the word "happiness", but I love the quote.
"Happiness" always comes off sounding like a Kraft single... cheesy and artificial.
"Joy" is a much better word, but since it would sound funny in that quote, I'll accept the alternative.
Maybe Paul would have agreed with this perspective too based on what he says in Phillipians 4:12-13 "I know how to live with almost nothing, or with everything. I have learned the secret of living in every situation, whether it is with a full stomach or empty, with plenty or little. For I can do everything through Christ who gives me strength."(NLT)
I think it's easy in our culture to slip into entitlement mode... and I do it daily, because it's the default setting of my sin-filled self. I start accusing God of being unjust or cruel because of what I have or do not have, experience or do not get to experience.
Not only is that wrong, but it leaves me in a prison-like state, where I can't see outside my own skin. That mindset robs me of so many cool things that God has for me right where I am at. It keeps me from celebrating the blessings in my own life, and the lives of the people I love all around me.
So today I choose to respond with an attitude of gratefulness, not entitlement.
I choose to walk with my Lord, and find peace, and total joy in the way of travel with Him, no matter how bumpy the flight may seem.
"and they lived..."
-Leah
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