You want a happy life. That is the reason you use your time away from work or school to do things you enjoy. No matter how you spend that free time, those activities bring you joy and happiness.
Filling your life with many toys or goods that this earth has to offer, does not lead to a happy life. And having an abundance of money does not bring happiness. You may be thinking that I am wrong, and if you just had this or that or something else, you would be happy. If money was the common denominator to happiness, then TV stars and movie actors and actresses would be the happiest people on earth. You know that is not true. Those rich and famous people are not shy to say they are unhappy, when they are interviewed. One sage talked about this, when he said, “The happiest people don’t necessarily have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything.” Making the best of whatever life brings your way, is the key to happiness.
The Bible speaks much of joy and happiness, as you live down here on earth. One of the things it talks about is finding happiness within the family circle. When Christ is the center of the home, and within each person’s life, then true happiness is felt by all in the family. “Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, so are the children of one’s youth. Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them” (Psalm 127:4-5, NKJV). Children make the home happy, and the members of that home happy, also.
To seek happiness leads to not finding happiness. Finding happiness happens when you invest your time in those around you. That is why children bring happiness to the parents. The parents invest time in the children, and happiness emerges. Go spend some time with your children!
