The essence of happiness is to rejoice in what IS -- not in the deceptive will-o-the-wisp pursuit of what we imagine might be. And there is plenty to rejoice in, if we will take time off from our self-pity and unhappiness and vain desire to look around us with the eye of faith and love and thanksgiving. We have been assured on the Highest Authority that "ALL things work together for good to those who love God." And it is all the assurance we ever need for permanent happiness. And if we in perfect faith wholeheartedly embrace this assurance, we shall find, in the marvelous contrivance of God's love, that we shall more and more be permitted to perceive and comprehend just HOW all things in our life ARE working together for good, dark though may be the side of them that presents itself to us at the moment.

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