Be Happy Now..

I’ve just heard this recently:” happy people don’t have time to be jealous, and jealous people don’t have time to be happy “ WOW!!!!! Yes! I know, majority of us will shake our heads, agree and say well of course that’s just logical....and of course it doesn’t just sound good, but it for sure makes a great statement, motto, quote... But let me take the word jealousy, and replace it with: anger, bitterness, insecurity, fear, anxiety, envy, gossip ...etc Majority of us will still agree well yes, that’s also logical... But what if I dig just a little bit deeper, if we are being honest with ourselves, we all can say that every single one of us struggle with those negative emotions from time to time, in different given circumstances..Agreed? Good.. Now let me take my brushes and paint it with different colors, every single moment I take and spin it on any of those mentioned above, no matter the circumstances or reasons, even just few minutes, I spend time and energy, which will never produce fruitful products, time and energy I will never get back, time and energy that will not multiply positive emotions or things, but only more negative ones....from bad to worst....I simply rob myself and others from the good stuff...I waste my talent, gifts, beauty, peace, love, creativity, all the amazing and beautiful things that create, inspire, love, encourages...even just couple of minutes... As I saw this picture, it occurred to me that the opposite of faith, might not necessarily be unbelief or doubt...but simply sight...acting out Not on what is good, honorable, sweet, trusting, believing, faith, love, positive, but on the sight I see or feel in that moment. For sight it is the eye, and faith it is the capacity to believe.. Faith is more truthful than sight. Optical illusions occur . We can think we see something when, in reality, it is something different. Faith requires me to see with the eyes of my heart, even when circumstances look bleak and impossible.... So faith or sight? Happy or jealous ( or you name it) ? I believe when I twirl my time and energy on those unfruitful and unproductive emotions, I simply lost my vision, I walk by sight, seeing only what’s in front of me, or what I think I feel, see and hear... But faith restores my vision, to spin my time and energy on fruitful and productive emotions...which creates , loves, trusts, encourages, inspires, dreams, envisions ....restored vision where the “black” I was seeing and feeling, is turned into colorful and sweet emotions actually working for the benefit of myself and others...even just a couple of minutes...

It is a heart issue, not a circumstance one, not a social media one, not another person one...not a “oh poor me” one ...it’s a simple matter of my heart! I ask this question: what do I have time for? 

I look at my heart and ask my sweet heart: got happiness?

Do we have: happiness , gratitude , love, dreams, visions, encouragement or the other bad  stuff ? One competes with the other...but none of us can have both in the same time...the good and the bad..one will always win and use our time and energy... 

“A heart at peace gives life to the body, but envy rots the bones.” ( proverbs 14:30) 

Even just couple of minutes...