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"Happiness Runs", @TheosTrek, Donovan, family, Happiness, Original Photography, Post-a-Day 2011 Challenge
Nancy Hatch, of Spirit Lights the Way, has put up several posts lately on the subject of happiness. Where is it? How do we get it, or find it? She closes her post “Peace Lies Within,” with a wonderful line: “Sometimes just the slightest shift in perspective works wonders.”
Both peace and happiness do come from within, and with-out, and beyond; but in the final analysis, you will not retain for long happiness or peace that you have searched for through things or from any outside source. As I and many have said repeatedly, happiness is a choice – always. As Nancy said, however, sometimes making that choice requires that we choose as well to change our perspective. The little slide show I’ve posted below is one of the perspectives that I switch to when I don’t feel well, or happy, or just plain crappy! If such beauty exists in our granddaughter, her granddaddy, and in the natural world, all around me, why should my heart be sad?
Daily I am given reasons to turn away from depression, ugliness, anger, pain, and sadness. Even without the photos in front of me, I see these images – and many, many more – and I am reminded of how truly blessed I am. I have been blessed with enough. . .
Reflections From a Cloudy Mirror 
Very creative video. Beautiful granddaughter! Thank you for sharing. Blessings to you…
Thank you, Carol – I am standing by your side in spirit, praying for and waiting with you and your husband. Maay God continue to shower you with the blessings of enough. . .
Beautiful post, PTC! Here’s to always finding ENOUGH to smile about. 😀
Thanks, Nancy – for getting that train moving. . .
You remind me daily to be grateful and not to lament my woes. I’ve never seen such grace in the face of adversity. Thanks Paula, and God bless you.
After reading Denise’s blog this morning, I’m ashamed that I have complained so much! Whatever grace I have has been a gift, and I see that same gift in you and your posts daily. It always helps just to stop, take a deep breath, and look around. Happiness is there, reflected from your heart.
Thank you 🙂
Lovely photos, handsome husband, beautiful granddaughter… Blessings flow with a grateful heart when we take time to notice even the smallest things that God has blessed us with each day. I am blessed beyond measure with more than “daily manna” if I choose to notice what God has provided.
Oh, Jeanne!! I just realized that I wrote my original reply to you for Carol “Cah4el!” So sorry! I had her on my mind when I read your lovely comment, and my mind wandered off, as usual. Please forgive – I will delete that first one and leave this one, with my thanks for your kind words – as they always are from you!
As you can see from my face I am blissfully happy when holding our grandbaby in my arms. She has changed our perspective on a lot of things. Beautiful.
Hubs
No matter how down I may be, I only have to see a photo of her, and everything is different. To cast my eyes on one “so lately come from God,” reminds me of who I am and Whose I am. “For though the wrong seems oft so strong, God is the Ruler yet! Why should my heart be sad?. . .”
How lovely!
Zoë is one of the happiest children I have ever seen. She lights up a room. I know I’m her Granny, and that all Grannies say that, but I don’t know. . .there’s something else there behind her eyes that I’ve never seen before – not even in our own sons.
The very last photo cracks me up, because she’s blowing a raspberry. She can keep her lips going as long as she has breath! Her Dad said, “Even I can’t blow one for that long!” I suppose we’ll have to teach her later on that it’s not polite, but until then. . .
Happiness, I think, is contentment with oneself. It is surprising how, if one is content with oneself, the whole world around will reflect it too.
Abraham Lincoln said, “If you look for the good in a man, you will surely find it.” (And vice-versa!) The same goes for beauty. It is everywhere.
🙂
That’s all…
That “says” it! And it is enough. . .