The Pursuit of Happiness

“Would you pray for Lauren*?” a friend anxiously asked me.

Lauren just wasn’t happy, and often she complained to my friend about all the lousy stuff going on in her life. 

You see, Lauren had money problems, health problems and pet problems and just listening to all of them was bringing my friend down too.


And so I prayed, but when I did – I began to wonder about Lauren.
 
I mean, yeah, the events in Lauren’s life were not good, I got that. But if her outlook
on life was dependent on what happened to her, well, I could see a downward
spiral hitting some pretty high speeds. 

In my dictionary, I see that one of the definitions of “happy” is: “delighted, pleased, or glad, as over a particular thing.”

So when things go bad in our lives as they tend to do and we experience problems like Lauren’s, I guess that gives us good enough reason to be unhappy people right?

Wrong.

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