Mary943’s Weblog

Happiness is not a feeling, but a choice.  Your life is your life.  No one else is living it, but you.  We can say all we want that we are not happy because of him or her, but in reality that is a BIG lie, and if we think about it we know it.  When someone hurts you, they go on about their business without a care, and you are the one miserable driving yourself crazy.  You are not hurting anybody but yourself when you hold onto anger, hurt, unforgiveness, etc.  You CAN choose to be happy, no matter your circumstance.  If you let others control the way you feel by what they do, then you are living a life that doesn’t belong to you.  You are being held in invisible chains, in the past.  God gave us free will, and people can and will hurt you, but if you will let that go, and choose to be happy anyway, God will take the most awful things that have happened to you, and turn your life into something beautiful.  See, we have free will to mess up whatever we want, but when we hand over our free will, realizing that we don’t know what’s best for us, and give it all to the one who does, he will take it and turn it into a beautiful garden.  Jesus gave up his life on his own free will so that we may be able to do the same.  That means that no longer are we obligated to respond to things the way that we naturally would, because we are no longer in control.  If we recieve his love and goodness into our lives, we become changed.  We Know Him, and know that we are deeply loved, and we walk in that love.  Before long, we no longer live by our emotions, we live by truth, the truth always sets you free.  There is only one truth, HIM, if we seek him above anything else, the best we can, our lives become transformed into the truth.  It seems complicated, but it’s not.  You are alive, he put you together in your mother’s womb, made you the way he wanted, and gave you an eternal gift that you are free to take or reject.  If you reject it, you will always have a void, a hole in the pit of your heart, never being filled no matter how you try to fill it.  If you recieve it, and learn to have a relationship with him, learn that you are a child of the most high God, and that he has a great purpose and plan for you, know that he loves you, created you to be loved by him, and him by you, your life will become meaningful, filled beyond measure with purpose, happiness, and love.  You will be one of the few who knows TRUE happiness, and your life will be great, beyond anything you could ever imagine.  Why do we so often reject the greatest gift ever given, the one we are searching for but have been so blinded by false rules and religion we don’t even see that it is such a great gift.  We often just see boring religion, a bunch of rules.  That was not the way he wants it, it’s not about rules, it’s about your heart and your willingness to hand it over to the greatest lover in this world