A thought by James MacDonald (2010-05-03) in his book, 10 Choices: A Proven Plan to Change Your Life Forever (Kindle Location 1593). Thomas Nelson. Kindle Edition. (Click on the title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.) There are so many things you can find in the Bible and one of them is happiness. James says, “Now, the world has tried to hijack this word. So to be clear, when I say happiness, I don’t mean some little oh-I-just-had-a-Big-Mac-meal-I’m-so-happy-right-now. True happiness is not some shallow, giddy, short-lived pleasure. Like we said, God wrote the blueprint on human happiness.” Psalm 1: 1– 2 says, “Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the LORD.” James goes on, “The word blessed means happy— real happiness, not the horizontal, worldly substitute that flashes by in a heartbeat. Blessed is the person who knows God’s kind of
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