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~ Are We Happy, Really? ~
Are we getting just old enough, and on so many medications,
that we don't realize how down right irritable we can be?
Or, have we not realized just how unhappy we really are?
Have You Ever Talked to God Above
By Heatherli (Susan) Giffen, 2000
Upon first entering the workforce, I was in shock, and sometimes thoroughly angered, to discover the authoritarian, legalistic, generation of adults who (had controlled our every thought and being) did not even have their own act together!
Only then, these adults were deacons, Sunday School teachers, and the like; with a different code of ethics in the workplace. Evidently, all that lust and greed was not the answer because they, still, are not truly happy.
At this writing, my youngest is experiencing her first time in the workforce, and she thoroughly loathes her job ... not because of employers or even co-workers, but the customers. It isn't just an occasional cranky old biddy. As she says, "Mom, it's all of them!"
Customers make the same purchases, over and over, with the same gripes. She is in the food business. So, there is pre-knowledge that food will taste the same, be wrapped the same way, customers will be charged the same ... every time. My daughter questions, "If they really do not like our product, why don't they go somewhere else?"
Evidently, customers do like the product, as this store is a multi-million dollar business. Though, multitudes do appear unhappy, as retailers well know. Maybe we can keep it all neatly tucked, take it out on clerks and waitresses, none the wiser. Now, that's a plan!
Why don't we just admit it? "I am not happy. My life sucks! There isn't a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. There is no outside source or circumstance that will bring long term happiness." (Happiness is not a position, situation, or standing that we or anyone else can create. It comes from within.)
Maybe, then, we would face the truth. Our methods do not work. Not even religion brings lasting happiness. Only God can bring the kind of peace that passes all circumstances. And, to find it, perhaps we could begin considering He really does have the answers!
~ Blind Faith ~
Don't be a doubting Thomas,
Just like the Good Book said.
Trust in the one, God's only Son;
The One who raised the dead.
Just have faith and confidence.
Trust God in all you do
Because the miracles He performed, back then,
Will still work for me and you.
Though your prayers may not be answered
In the time you think they should,
Just know that God's time isn't our time;
But He's still working for your good.
Sometimes He works behind the scenes,
To make your dreams come true.
And even when the skies look bleak,
He can turn gray skies to blue.
So, no matter what you ask of Him,
Have faith, be loyal; remain ~
Because we know that God will answer us,
If we'll just ask in His Son's name..
~ * ~
Now Faith is being sure
of what we hope for and
certain of what we do not see.
Hebrews 11:1
© 2009 by Vickie Lambdin
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Ask, and it shall be given you; seek,
and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be
opened unto you: For every one that asketh
receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and
to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
Matthew 7:6-8
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