Happiness.

So as you know from reading my last blog I was going to take Cutter fishing. Well, we went fishing and Cutter caught fish, 5 of them to be exact. The reason I'm bringing this up is because when I told him it was time to go fishing that boy couldn't sit still, was talking a mile a minute, and couldn't even think straight. He was so happy to be going fishing. So we finally get there, which only took us 13 minutes but I think he asked 15 times if we were there yet... We unload the Lightning McQueen tackle box and fishing pole and head to the pond. He casts his line time after time after time. Nothing.... We move to the next pond and I say a quiet prayer, "Please Lord let him catch at least one fish." He casts his line time after time and BAM!!!!! His first fish was on the end of that Lightning McQueen pole and you would've thought that he had caught Mobe Dick himself!!!! I whispered to myself, Thank you Lord!! The look on my sons face when he realized that he had caught his very first fish all by himself, from cast out to the slipper lil sucker flopping on the bank... Now that right there was true happiness.

We all have something that makes us happy even if just for that moment. My happiness is blogging. I love to share the wonderful things the Lord does and can do for all of us. It makes me feel very close to Him when I blog about His love for us. My husband happiness comes when he is on his Kawasaki Katana (crotch rocket). My little girls love to make presents for people. Anything from potholders they weave on their looms, to friendship braclets, to homemade cards. They are so happy to give anything they can to people. Needless to say, Cutter's happiness is fishing!! He feels like a big "little" man when he can do it all by himself.

Have you found your happiness? I believe that to find true happiness you need to have the Lord in your heart and in your life. It has scriptures in the Bible on Happiness, of course it does it has scripture for everything in there!! "He who heeds the word wisely will find good, And whoever trusts in the Lord, happy is he." Proverbs 16:20 Have you heard people say, "You can't love anyone until you love yourself?" In my opinion the same concept applies, only to me it's "You can't have true happiness until you have the Lord!" Of course that is only my opinion but I do believe in my heart that Jesus is the source of true happiness. I have one more scripture for you, I hope it will help you find Jesus so you can in turn find your true happiness. It is in Psalm 144:15 it says, " Happy are the people who are in such a state; Happy are the people whose God is Lord!" Now I'm not saying that every moment of every day is all smiles and sunshine. I have moments that to this day make tears come to my eyes with sadness, but I can easily say that my happy moments out number my bad ones a million to one and I can only thank the Lord for all those happy moments. I know that without Him in my heart my happy moments wouldn't be so- truly happy. So remember that the Lord is where your happiness will come from and then like Cutter you can enjoy a moment of true happiness when you reel in that big fish!! May your heart be full of Happiness that only the Lord our God Himself can provide. tou.

Love in Christ,

Des