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The Feast of Happiness

An understanding heart seeks knowledge; but fools feed on folly. All the days of the needy are hard, but a happy heart has a continual feast.

—Proverbs 15:14-15

When we choose to feast on happiness more than folly, we are blessed with abundance and always satisfied. We have a banquet of opportunities to fill us with delight. We smell the savory goodness of all that is before us, appreciating the beauty of what God has done to bring us to this place. Our happiness then comes from the heart, and the more our hearts seek to know God, the more knowledge we receive and our hearts are happy.

If we want to have a menu of happy choices, then we must learn more about what it means to love, so that hate and its cronies all fade away. If we want to lift others up, we build their confidence and courage, leaving the words that bring destruction far behind. We keep choosing to be happy.

We wonder sometimes about what it means to be happy. We question how anyone can live in the world and still maintain a spirit of joy, a childlike faith. The answer is that people are happy who have taken God at his word, trusting in him for the circumstances they don’t understand.

It’s a new day and the table is set.

Choose to feast on the beauty of God.

QUIET THE WAVES

Lord, thank you for feeding me so well. Thank you for helping me make good choices. I choose to remain forever in your love, for that is the only thing that really makes me happy. Amen.