“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 more
“Reaching For The Light”
Happiness … p 81
I am happy.
I am happy because
I am at peace within.
Looking back, I mistook
Feelings of pleasure and delight
For happiness, sensations
Soon forgotten.
Happiness, true happiness
Lives deep within me —
It never leaves.
I found happiness
When I found myself,
My true spiritual Being.
True happiness comes
From loving myself
And others, and, finally,
From loving and being loved
By another.
I am thus blessed.
— Garry D. Kilbourn
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