Posted on 07/04/2013 9:02:42 AM PDT by pax_et_bonum
Wow!
Seems that Someone is watching over you two.
:-)
Here, it’s too dry for fireworks.
Too bad.
Happiness and joy are cool,
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For me, the struggle to retain happiness and joy even in the midst of tremendous hardship has led to strength to overcome those hardships and to survive.
Bryan got the car fixed, and he’s all cleaned up and ready to have a “Sunday night,” when we watch our TV DVDs and have a nice Sunday dinner.
Tonight it’s braised pork shoulder and low-carb rotini with Alfredo sauce and mushrooms. It’ll be ready in about a half hour.
Oh, I forgot to mention that it is “Sunday night” because he has to work tomorrow.
He tried to get the plant closed for a four-day weekend like most sane places do, but they are quite busy right now and he was voted down.
Sounds like a perfect date night!
We’re having bbq, potato salad, beans and fruit salad while watching the new flag and untangling it when the wind tangles it on the new untangling flagpole!
:-)
Pursuit of Happiness was a truncated term Jefferson coined in order to describe the "pursuit of virtue which leads to happiness with God."
It was understood by all the Founders that a virtuous life leads to a life worthy of being with God for eternity. That is our Founders meaning of "happiness."
They all would be appalled to think that their "pursuit of happiness" has been relegated to mean a licentious effort just to make ourselves "feel good."
A four-day weekend would have been great - too bad!
Have fun, you two!
Thank you very much for your comment.
In that case, my understanding of the pursuit of happiness agrees with our founders.
The reason that I posted this thread today is because, although we are justifiably concerned about current affairs, if we step back every once in a while and focus on the good which we have and the gifts we’ve been given interiorly by God, we will be strengthened for whatever lies ahead - and, so, we will be happier!
Best wishes to you and I hope you’ll remember to let me know when your book is published.
I’ll add another thing for which I’m thankful: your input!
Have a Blessed and Happy 4th!
I really wanted to know what was in our Founders heads when they came up with all those documents.
I had to read a lot, mostly what they read, in order to understand it.
It has been a fruitful effort.
A huge project!
Sounds like it will be fruitful for all of us - including children who receive it for Christmas gifts!
:-)
Man, they would have Obama pegged like a donkey at a kid's birthday party where somebody forgot the blindfold.
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