Happiness Is ...

Abundant balls, and a discarded jacket. Who is happier, Dusty or me?

Hard to tell. The sun’s been out again, most the day, and the wind has dropped. I’ve been able to work outside. 

And while working outside, I heard it. The first cuckoo of spring. At last!

Lots of ‘things’ tell a story. 

Like an empty cross. A cruel instrument of torture and death devised by the Romans. Yet Christians wear it around their necks. Why?

Because of the story it tells. That man did his worst to Jesus, but that wasn’t the end of the story. The end of the story is an empty cross, or more tellingly, an empty tomb. Jesus defeated death. He had the last word.

And the last word, like the first word, is Love. God loved the world so much that he gave his only son, his much loved son, so that everyone who believes that he is the son of God will live forever with him.

Now that is happiness.