Being Happy

A quote from Catherine:



You cannot fail to be happy while the spirit of your vocation
animates all of your actions.

I have been reading a book by Joan Chittester entitled Wisdom Distilled from the Daily.
One of the chapters is on community and how rubbing shoulders day in and day out helps us in the ordinariness of life to find who we are. We can realize that things, prestige, honors and power do not make us happy. It is the deep and abiding experience of a community seeking to find God that helps us, in the long run to be happy. This works in families as well. We cannot come to know ourselves unless we do the work within and allow the sharp angles and corners be softened with respect and wisdom distilled from those around us.

If our calling is to search more fully to find God, then our very seeking will be that of a child animated in the amazing discoveries of life. May we continue to have that childlike animation all our days as we continue to search for the loving and loving God of our lives.