Happiness - A Byproduct

Happiness is a by-product.

We can't buy it, because it has no price.

Some people try to purchase happiness by getting drunk; others build fine houses, and some travel around the world.

But the goal is as elusive as the horizon.

The main issue in life is service, and happiness is incidental to service.

To try to win happiness from the world without erving the world is like trying to distill gasoline from water instead of from crude oil. It can't be done.

The contractor who erects an honest, substantial building wins happiness.

The statesman who forwards the cause of humanity wins happiness.

The judge who reads the law in the light of common sense wins happiness.

Those reckless fellows who balance themselves on four-inch beams, ten stories above ground, and toss white-hot rivets back and forth, win happiness.

The law of happiness is as inexorable as the law of graviation.

Without service there shall be no happiness, says nature.

And it's a good law, too.

Author unknown

To your happiness!!

Fran Watson

P.S. Having just come back from a meeting at 10:30 pm, this little prayer spoke to me as I sat down at my computer. May it bless you too!

God Bless All Tired Fok Tonight

God bless all tired folk tonight
And give them dreamless sleep;
God bless all lonely, anxious folk
Who in the darkness weep.
God bless all little children thought
They harass us by day;
And old folk, too, and careless folk
Who never kneel to pray.
God bless all those who try and fail,
And all who suffer pain;
God bless all those away from home
And bring them back again.
God bless all honest, patient folk
In cottage and in hall,
And as we need His love and care,
God bless us one and all.

P.P.S. I ask God's special blessing on all soldiers both at home and away. Amen.