Happy Journey

Hey Guys, I hope that this year has started out well for you all, and that you are all well on your way to a far better year in 2010. I am on Facebook (a number of you know this). I completed one of those silly quizzes the other day - the one about your "hippy name" and this quiz determined that my hippy name was: Happy Journey. Now if you have read my blog before you have a pretty good idea where my life is presently - you might not think that I was on a Happy Journey of any sort, however at the same time I had to wonder what God was trying to tell me. I am at a place in my life where many people would say I had hit rock bottom. That there is not much farther down that I could possibly go.

Now keep in mind that I understand that this was just a silly quiz on a personal networking site...and that it has (in reality) no real bearing on my life what so ever, but at the same time I had to take into the consideration that God had used an "ass" to communicate to Balaam (Numbers 22:28)...So "if" He can use an ass to communicate to a human - then He certainly could use a silly quiz to do the same thing for me, and I felt at total peace with this.

Now I don't plan on going by this name or anything like that, but the peace I felt as I thought about what God was trying to tell me "is" something that I would love to be able to experience every day...to walk in constantly. I felt like God was trying to share with me that "we" should all live our life as if we are on a "Happy Journey"...not that we will be perpetually happy and blissful day in and day out by any means, BUT for us all to "try" and maintain "happiness in our hearts always". And as Christians we should be able to do this knowing that God is our Savior. We should glow with this inner happiness that we could share with the world through our actions, deeds and the way that we carry ourselves...I don't know about you, but I think that this would make Our God very happy with us all - to see that we are sharing "His love for us" through the happiness that we feel each and everyday with the people around us...by smiling at them, or talking to them...sometime just to acknowledged can change a persons entire outlook on life that day, and they would be able to share what you have shared with them.

That was a mouth full; I know, but think about it? What if we all could move through every day at total peace with ourselves, and sharing that peace with everyone around us by our actions. That would be an "Happy Journey" wouldn't it? While it is so difficult at times for me to even get up in the mornings knowing that there really isn't anything that I have to do that day...not having a job, no girlfriend, no house to maintain and I have developed a slur when I speak - all I really have is God. And I have to believe that this is how He intends for it to be for me right now for me (and truth be told - countless of others that God is molding into a new shape)...SO my job as a Christian; is to go on a Happy Journey on a daily basis with Our God at the center of my life knowing that He is in control. And that no matter where I think I am: Godknows exactly where I am. AND He is right there beside me loving me and holding me up. As a Christian it is my job to share this with the world utilizing any means possible...through my actions, deeds and the way I carry myself in His honor...

until next time...

Father God I thank you for the opportunity each and every day that I am here on this earth, to do my very best at helping people on their "happy journey"...I have to constantly ask You for strength and guidance Father, so that I can continue down this path that you have placed me on - for I am a mere human being that can not do this task without You. Father I pray that I can honor You ,and please You each and every day. Always knowing that if I falter You will be there to right me and send me on my way again. I ask that you allow the Holy Spirit live in my heart, and shine from deep within my soul. So that each and every person I come into contact with will know that I am sent by You, and that I am made an "enabler" by You to help them continue on their "happy journey". In Jesus' name we pray, Amen