And might I add....
Happiness is fleeting but being a useful, honorable, compassionate person in your life and having a strong relationship with Jesus, creates Joy, and unlike temporal happiness, JOY is eternal, it is permanent, it's something that never goes away, you carry it in your soul forever, like a sweet song, ready to sing at any given moment.

We aren't always going to be "Happy", not every day. Moments, yes; but it's very healthy and also quite beautiful, to have a plethora of life experiences, both the ones that make us laugh and smile, and the ones that make us cry and feel deeply. You cannot let one moment define you because the next moment will be entirely different from the other, and then gone like the wind.

Chasing happiness, would be like chasing the wind. An endless and ultimately time consuming effort that will inevitably lead to defeat. Use that effort, instead, to seek the Lord, and His joy. Go after God with all your heart and everything else will fall into place and you'll just notice yourself being a better person without even trying. You'll notice that life seems more peaceful, more joyful regardless of anything to the contrary happening around you at the time. You'll find yourself counting it all joy. King Solomon knew that everything but God in life was fleeting or as he put it "meaningless", "all smoke".

Ecclesiastes is one of my favorite books in the Bible and for the first few chapters it's all about everything being pointless and a waste of time, EXCEPT for when He speaks of God. My favorite part is Chapter 3 Verses 1-8. A time for everything. I suggest reading that in a few different versions. I like the MSG Version and NIV Version personally! But either way, just read it.... and let it sink into you. There is a time for happiness but it's not always going to be there. But your God developed character is lasting and it remains even after your gone from this earth. Those you've impacted by your character will remember you for it. So go.... be good people, Love the Lord with all you've got and do your best to just Be, but be in Truth; however you are at the moment, it's okay to be just that. I hope that makes sense.

- Brianna Carey ©