I have loved you just as the Father has loved me. You must go on living in my love. If you keep my commandments you will live in my love just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and live in his love. I have told you this so that you can share my joy, and that your happiness may be complete. This is my commandment: that you love each other as I have loved you. There is no greater love than this—that a man should lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I tell you to do. I shall not call you servants any longer, for a servant does not share his master’s confidence. No, I call you friends, now, because I have told you everything that I have heard from the Father.
— John 15:9-15
J.B. Phillips New Testament (Phillips)
“Reaching For The Light”
Happiness … p 50
For all too many Happiness is but a daydream nourished by faint hope. Others have overcome such reverie by rediscovering their childlike trust to know that Happiness is no longer illusory, but is in fact wondrously real.
The rediscovery of our childlike trust awakens in us our spiritually inner self and gives Light to the very soul: We know beyond faith that God lives in us and we in Him.
Happiness is not a state of mind, something to think about and make real. Rather, it is one of surrendering in all humility to God, that His will may be done. Happiness is made whole, and our Purpose revealed, only when this wondrous gift is shared with others.
— Garry D. Kilbourn
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