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“Happy people are happy ‘now.’”

A thought by Henry Cloud, from his book, The Law of Happiness: How Spiritual Wisdom and Modern Science Can Change Your Life (The Secret Things of God) (p. 46). Howard Books. Kindle Edition. (Click on the book title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.)

Is that true of you or are you looking to be happy “when”?

Henry says, “. . . some people feel that happiness is on some sort of timeline and depends on a later event. It cannot happen now, because there is a missing piece that has not occurred yet. But in reality, people who think this way do not magically become happy ‘when’ the ‘whatever’ it is happens. They just transfer that mindset to the next ‘when.’”

He goes on, “Happy people are happy ‘now.’ Because they practice all the ingredients we are looking at, they are never dependent on a someday or a tomorrow to be the key to their well-being. They are fulfilled before that upcoming event ever takes place. They are happy ‘now.’

“What gives them this ability? Several ingredients, but first and foremost it is a spiritual discipline of living in the now. Listen to how Jesus puts it:

“Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.  Each day has enough trouble of its own. (Matthew 6:34)”

Henry then says, “While the Bible certainly tells us to plan for the future, it also tells us to live in the present, each and every day. Today, or better yet, this moment, is all there is or all there ever will be. You can never experience tomorrow, ever. When it gets here, it will be just another moment like today, and if you do not have the spiritual discipline of experiencing the ‘now moment,’ when it gets here, you will miss the tomorrow that you are waiting on right now. . . As someone once said, ‘today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.’”

It is so easy for us to live in the past and to also live in the future, but we need to see that we are to rejoice and be glad and live in our present, in the now.  Will you live and be happy in your today?  Will you? 

Yes, yes!
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