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pureblyss:

One thing I just love about 2012 is the happiness I have.

I’m not perfect. I don’t read the Bible like I should, I forget to pray, I forget to check up on friends who need to be kept in touch with, I have moody bad days where I swear at everyone in my head, I get annoyed with crazy drivers, I forget to study for quizzes in my easy classes. I’m so far from where I want to be.

And yet (I just love the word yet)….I’m okay. More than okay actually. I found joy. (Oh and that’s my middle name. Joy.) I literally skipped to my car in the parking lot of the movie theater last night…and I catch myself smiling randomly….and just…I’m happy, that’s all there is to it.

Happiness, true happiness, seems so rare and yet it is so simple to me now. I’m just happy with me. Where I am, what I’m doing, Who I’m living for (obviously). It certainly seems to be the road less traveled. Not many people I talk to are naturally happy all the time.

And those times I feel extra far from where I want to be? Those times are usually the times when He reminds me how far I’ve come and the lives I’ve touched already and the blessings I DO have rather than the things I don’t have (yet). I don’t know why I didn’t get a grip on this whole thing sooner. It’s really not that hard, at least for now. Give it a try? :)

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

- Robert Frost