Jesus summed up His teaching on happiness this way: \u2018Now that you know this truth, how happy you will be if you put it into practice!\u2019 The Bible gives us three keys that are vital to happiness. <\/p>\n
(1) Be content<\/i> (see 1\u00a0Timothy\u00a06:8). A man who tried everything to get rid of dandelions called a garden centre and asked, \u2018What can I try next?\u2019 The shop owner said, \u2018Try getting used to them!\u2019 In life, you get what you focus on. Paul writes, \u2018Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honourable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise.\u2019<\/i> (Philippians\u00a04:8\u00a0NLT) <\/p>\n
(2) Be grateful <\/i>(see 1\u00a0Thessalonians\u00a05:18). Look around and be grateful for what God has given you. And if you can\u2019t, thank Him for what He has protected you from. The devil doesn\u2019t have to steal anything from you, just make you take it for granted. \u2018From His abundance we have all received one gracious blessing after another.\u2019<\/i> (John\u00a01:16\u00a0NLT). <\/p>\n
(3) Learn to appreciate your loved ones. \u2018Don\u2019t be concerned for your own good but for the good of others.\u2019<\/i> (1\u00a0Corinthians\u00a010:24\u00a0NLT) George Eliot wrote: \u2018Oh\u2026 the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.\u2019 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Jesus summed up His teaching on happiness this way: \u2018Now that you know this truth, how happy you will be if you put it into practice!\u2019 The Bible gives us three keys that are vital to happiness. (1) Be content (see 1\u00a0Timothy\u00a06:8). A man who tried everything to get rid of dandelions called a garden […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}