An interesting little note about NBC’s TODAY programs recent visit with some the old TV sit-com families. The “Partridge Family” whose theme song was, “Come on be happy,” segment was cancelled because two of the daughters couldn’t be in the same room because of an on-going feud. The disagreement, according our newspaper, has been going on for a great number of years and is only getting worse. How sad … to bad that they couldn’t fulfill the message of their own theme song.
What is there about happiness and joy that simply escapes many of our grasps? How can we allow “the joy of the Lord to become our strength”?
Bruce Larson tells this story about releasing the joy within. “A conference at a Presbyterian church in Omaha, people were given helium filled balloons and told to release them at some point in the service when they felt like expressing the joy in their hearts. Since they were Presbyterians, they weren't free to say ‘Hallelujah, Praise the Lord.’ All through the service balloons ascended, but when it was over 1/3 of the balloons were unreleased. Let your balloon go.”
It’s Saturday – let out your inner joy and embrace the happiness within your soul!
Quote for today: “Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.” Nathaniel Hawthorne.
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