dailydatewithgod

Abraham Lincoln once said, “People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.” I remember the first time I heard that I thought it was ridiculous.  But a mind that fights reality and acceptance often scoffs are truth sayings.  I have since come to believe it.  I used to think that happiness was based on outside circumstances, but I now know that happiness is a choice.  It is irrelevant what is happening on the outside, it is my mindset that effects how I see what is happening outside.  I have also heard it said that my level of happiness is directly proportional to my level of discipline. By the time I heard that one, though I don’t remember who said it, it fell softer on my mind because it is the reality that I experience.  I have more discipline in my life today than I had 12 years ago and I am way happier than I was then.  I think the reason that I fight the idea that I am happy as I want to be is the same reason that I fight taking responsibility for anything.  I learned a long long time ago that no one makes me feel anything–I choose.  I may not like my choices but I always have a choice.  When I take the time to connect with God, I have the ability to choose powerfully instead of out of programming.  It is my sincere hope that one day at a time my choice of happiness comes from a place of power, not reaction.  My prayer for you today is when faced with something unhappy outside of you, stop and ask your heart (God), what is the happy in this that you want me to experience?  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen