choosing to be happy.. it's an interesting concept. i was reading a blog today that was talking about it.. and i've written blogs about how i choose to be happy.
i think that sometimes it's possible.. but more than often it's not. happiness is a thing that comes and goes. there's a time and a place for it. the same goes for not being happy. there are times and places when it's okay to not be happy... when it's okay to not want to be happy. happiness is a very fickle thing, and rightly so. if we were happy all the time.. then we would never get any joy out of the happiness.
"..and i'll take the truth at any cost.."
i hate lying. i really do. and i think the main reason is because i've gotten hurt so much because people have lied to me.. and if they had told the truth, it still would have hurt - but it would have hurt less. does that make sense? i dunno.
so.. yeah. just an fyi. don't lie to me. it makes me angry.
and i think it's okay for me to be angry when someone lies to me.. ya know, as long as it's "righteous" (ooh, big Bible word) anger, and i don't act "unrighteously" on it.. then i think it's perfectly acceptable. =p
i have worship team practice tonight.. should be interesting. we have a new worship leader.. tonights his first night. kinda like a test-run of sorts. we'll see how it goes.. hah.
"I don't have anything that you need. Nothing I say is going to change your life, and none of our music is going to change the world. God does those things. Always listen for that still small voice in your head telling you to hold, resist anger, and show love. Hard times make you who you are, not good ones." - Matthew Langston, Eleventyseven
the end.
Thursday, April 24, 2008
"well, she never was the best - yeah, at following the trends"
Posted by hannah at 5:48 PM
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I agree. I don't think that it is possible to be happy all the time...in fact its probably not healthy. But...I do know that sometimes you have to make the choice before things start to get better...not really choosing to be happy...but choosing to move on.
please don't get me started on lying. :-P
Hope practice went well!
I love the quote on the end.
lying is bad. and being happy is hard.
I see what you're saying about always being happy and stuff.
I think it's a good goal always to be.
The Bible talks about anger and sadness and worry and being nervous.
All of those things are sins.
I've been learning about that a lot lately I think mostly because i would think that it's okay to be worried and stuff, but God is showing me that it's not.
Anger is a sin because it hurts people and is offensive to God.
Sadness can be if you wallow in it.
When something sad happens we need to pray to God that He will help us through it and find the silver lining.
And worry and being nervous, that a total lack of trust in God, and there is biblical backup in saying it's a sin, I just can't remember the exact reference.
So yeah, nice blog.
Ah, well.. I agree and disagree to an extent either way...
Anger is not always a sin.. as long as it's "righteous" anger, or as long as you don't act on the anger, it's okay. Even Jesus got angry (like the time when He went in the temple and threw all the tables down). And I think there are times when we need to be angry - when we should be angry at things. Like, we should be angry at injustice, for example.
As for sadness.. I think that occasionally it can be a sin, as you said, if you wallow in it.. but not most of the time. There are times to be sad, when it's okay to be sad. There's not always a silver lining in life. (there's a verse in the Bible that says "a time to mourn, a time to weep" or something of that extent)
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