be the happiest person I know every day

I am becoming a happy person again. I attribute it to my counseling and a really good sermon I heard last Sunday and a lot of praying and some hard work on my part. Earl Nightingale said it best: We are what we think about. His “Strangest Secret of All” is one of the best self-help things I have ever heard. I recommend it highly. I was so angry when I started my counseling. That was all I was thinking about. My anger was ruling my life. Sunday I heard a friend who had JUST lost his sister speaking of ”...count it all joy…” Man, that hit my heart so hard. Count it all Joy? Why should I? Then as I listened I got it. I can let the hardships kick my butt or I can use them to make myself a better person. Suffering is never a good thing. How we react to the suffering is the key. Will I allow the suffering to rob me of who I have become? Will I sink back down to the emotional cesspool that it took so long for me to crawl out of? I have been through worse. I have lived through MUCH worse. Will I loose all the ground I have covered? Will I give up the only family that has ever cared enough to go through hell and back again to make sure that I was okay and forgiven me for all the pain that I have put them through because I am angry? My anger is paling in the light of His love and of theirs. I do not want to cut off my nose to spite my face; as my Grandma used to say. For today I am working on doing the next right thing. For today I am working realizing that I am becoming what I think about and that it is up to me what it is that I think about.

show me that it doesn’t matter where you are. It just matters whether or not you choose to be happy or sad. You go Michael! Thanks for the reminder!

by adopting this goal I’m cheating ‘cause I’m already the happeist person I know!