Happiness

Three simple questions for you today.

1.Are you having a good day?
2.Why are you having a good day or why are you having a bad day?
3.Would you rather have a good day or a bad day tomorrow, what about the day after tomorrow? next week?
The last question is the easiest coz I know everyone would want to have a good day everyday. am yet to meet anyone who would like to have a bad day any day.

We have a good day when we are happy, and a bad day when otherwise,

Whether we are having a good day or not depends on how we answer question 2. remember? why are you having a good day or a bad day.

The mind is like a balloon in the wind. its blown by external circumstances.

When things are going well in our way we are happy, but when things aren't working our way the happy feeling disappears. this way our happiness is on other peoples hands or in the circumstances around us.

If you wish to have a good day stop outsourcing your happiness from people and circumstances. stop attributing happiness to what is happening externally. and stop blaming others for unhappiness.

as long as our happiness depends on other people or circumstances it will always be unstable.

Cultivate a source of happiness and peace from inside  (your mind),

Happiness and unhappiness are states of the mind their real cause cannot be determined from outside the mind.

If your mind isn't peaceful you'll find it impossible to be happy.

Isn't what happens that makes us happy or unhappy, its how we respond to what happens. our state of mind determines our happiness or unhappiness

one sure way of cultivating the stable state of mind irrespective of the external factors is through MEDITATION.

meditation - is  concentrating on a peaceful state of mind, focusing on the positive state , learn to do it all the time.

Joshua 1:8 do not let this book of law depart from your mouth, mediate on it day and night, that you may be careful to do everything written in it and you will be prosperous an successful in everything you do.

God didn't add  war horses or soldiers neither empowered Joshua with atomic bomb to fight his enemies, He knows the power of meditation. The Word of God that reminded them of
His presence with them,
their promises,
their past victories,
they would never turn back.

they were not affected by what was happening around them, their enemies coming against them, the Word of God had transformed and renewed their mind. they held their peace. can we say they were happy? of course.

tap into the potential peaceful state of mind.
one sure way is through the WORD of God, it brings peace.

Act 10:36 "The word which God sent to the children of Israel, preaching peace through Jesus Christ--He is Lord of all--

2Pe 1:2 Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord,

Peace is multiplied when you have the knowledge of God, through His Word of course.

Be happy always.
Blessings to you.

©Sam Mwangi.