What does it take to make you happy? Many of us run into a mess of unhappy people. It seems to them that their condition is based upon something they lost or don’t have. And if whatever they perceive is missing is not found their lives are miserable. We are constantly measuring our lot in life with someone else’s lot in love. We feel a need to be elevated from the doldrums we find ourselves. We understand that something is not right and therefore we will brood about it.
NBC News set out to discover how joyous people found happiness. During one brief segment, a reporter interviewed several nuns who lived in a convent. They portrayed happiness, and their life expectancy was 10 years beyond that of the average woman.
One nun, Sister Genevieve Kunkel, felt hope was the clue to inner joy. She said, "If you hope, you cope. If you don't, you mope."
Anne Frank, a young Jewish girl captured by the German Nazi army in World War II, died in a concentration camp. Before her death she wrote that “the best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.”
It is often true that what we thought would make us happy will not? Only when we think beyond our little world to see God’s big picture can we begin to experience happiness. Taco Bell theology, “Think outside the Bun.”
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