Choose Happiness
October 31, 2009 by Courtney Chalfant
Filed under Inspiration for You
You have the choice each day what your outlook will be. Why not choose positive thoughts as you awake like…
Lord my heart is open. Let joy now flow into me. Let me shine for you in such a way Lord that when people see me, I am shining for you. I choose to feel good about myself each day. Every morning I remind myself that I can make a choice to feel good and to be happy.
“I have learned that the greater part of
our misery or unhappiness is
determined not by our circumstance
but by our disposition.”
- Martha Washington
You want peace? Create peace for someone. You want happiness? Make someone happy. You want wealth? Enrich someone’s life. You want health? Take care of those in need of care. You want love? Give someone love. You want to be understood? Take the time to understand someone else.
Proverbs 15:13
A happy heart makes the face cheerful, but heartache crushes the spirit.
Love you, Courtney
I’m a middle aged ex pastor now disabled. Between my daughter in law’s death after a brave fight with brain cancer, watching others in our family die in close proximity, nearly losing my own life and marriage, and due to my heart attack now having no one to pastor, I have wondered if indeed God has let me and my family down. I’ve lost my way, feel some difficult feelings towards God because of all I’ve explained and am on 3 forms of depression medication and going through the motions of “living” but with little joy and happiness. I am also a type 1 diabetic who has way too high sugar numbers and I’m doing my best to address that by talking with a diatician to find ways to eat healthier. I miss some aspects of the ministry and being known and loved as the Rev. Dr Frankie. I know much of what you write above is true but I’ve learned all too well how to meet disappointments with responses of anger/depression and sadness. My wife tells me I have a choice on how to respond to God and all that has happened but I can’t seem to get past the grief of such great loss and my disappointment with God. I am trying to take life one day at a time and to just be good to me with some underlying sense that eventually God will show me what all this loss is for and how to move on and enjoy to the best of my ability (and with God’s help) some form of the abundant life promised and intended though Christ’s coming. One day at a time I’ll keep trying to reach for happiness and an outlook that will help lead in and sustain that. I appreciate what you wrote and feel blessed to have found this website.