Morning Prayer 3/100. Happiness is you.

Cindy and I saw Hector and the Search for Happiness a couple of days ago. My kind of movie: fast-paced, lots of different settings, clever devices, and a strong message.

The story is built around Hector’s discovery of many messages regarding, yes, the meaning of happiness. I will probably explore several of them during the next 97 Morning Prayer postings.

For today, my fave: Happiness is being loved for who you are.

The deep-seeded message is implied: and not for what you do or what you have. Or what you pretend to be.

Here’s what challenged me. Living that truth cannot happen until you believe it. And it’s hard to believe it’s true until you truly know who you are. For me and maybe for you the early years were all about learning, discovering, deciding who I want to be and who I am. The middle years were allowing myself to realize and accept that they are the same.

Discovery takes patience. It takes perseverance. It may take two-steps-forward-one-step-back. It may even mean steps in a different direction. It definitely takes listening to your heart. Listening closely. Listening slowly. Listening without being in a hurry to answer.

Two wonderful books explore how the discovering takes the front half of one’s life and how fulfilling the discovery fills the back half.

• Richard Rohr: Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
• Sue Monk Kidd: When the Heart Waits: Spiritual Direction for Life Sacred Questions.

God of Happiness,
I am delighted knowing at last that you do not give me happiness.
Instead I know you give me the power to find happiness, to create happiness, and to know happiness.
Knowing I am loved for who I am is a powerful happiness producer.
Thank you for allowing me to be in charge of that.
Thank you for allowing me to know and love my Self.
Thank you for allowing me to allow others to love my Self.
Thank you that I AM. Thank you that I AM Love. Thank you that I AM loved.
And so it is!
Amen.

Love and blessings,

 

07/08/2015

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