“The irony is that when you move into happiness with or without that person or situation that you imagine you needed, you put yourself in a much better position to attract that person or situation. That is because happiness attracts. It is like a magnet. It is the highest energy, next to love. Indeed, happiness is love, felt. The trick, then, is to be happy before you have what you think you need in order to be happy. Do not wait until after you receive it—or you may never receive it.”
—Neale Donald Walsch
“There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.”
—George Sand
December 24 , 2006
Happiness Is
time 8:01 pm feeling sleepy wearing pink sweater music Christmas! reading 10th Circle, again ready for surprise presents, seeing the baby again! next eat
For one, it may be a Superman costume that blows up with a fan. For another, maybe it's a cozy nap, followed by a long feeding and a change to clean diapers. Someone else, s/he might find it in the comfort of a shawl around the shoulders, hand-knit with love and prayer. Or maybe someone found it in knitting that shawl, stitch by stitch. Another might find it in handclap games with, in tussles against, in singing with their relatives. Or for some it might be a sleepy cuddle (or a sleepy snuggle, and we all know the difference in that!).
For one it could be heat, a meal, a blanket, a hand to hold. For another, the chance to hold that hand, and for another, the moment to choose that one with whom you will hold hands for the rest of your life; but for yet another, to be perfectly content alone. Someone might feel it being surrounded by their family, traveled from states and cities away; others might find it in sharing their compliments to that family and its patriarch, even as they may cry.
It's pretty clear, either way, that this thing called happiness has something—much—to do with love, of all kinds. And light and love and happiness—isn't that what this season is all about? However you find it, I hope you do, to give and live and love. Merry Christmas.
—Lexi