What makes people happy? – Religion - CNN.com Blogs

Concepts involved in what does it take to make a person happy. With Jeffery Paul Prow waiting on a kidney for Riley Hospital in Indianapolis to help him heal which may include needing a pancreas while on an insulin pump in his young age, having good health is important. I am lucky to take horse riding dressage lessons on a grandson of Secretariat from a family that will be leaving all their material possessions behind and moving to Italy to be missionary workers for two years with their child. It takes a strong person to give up all their comforts and only live to give to others. Trinity Stables in Robards has always been a good influence in the area and helped many horse people, so one thing you might say is folks that put others before themselves tend to be happy people while in the battle to make things better. A good missionary is never a wimp. A good person tends to be a sheepdog. I read a quote recently that some folks are sheep and never expect a crime to impact them, some folks are wolves and take from weaker and enjoy the power or may lack empathy and swat a person like a fly, and some folks tend to be sheepdogs and get in the game to make things better while being situationally aware of their surroundings and reading body language of folks around them like reading a horses body language. Today my lesson was on keeping your hands still, and legs still, and turning with core muscles to weave Sparky in and out of barriers. Mowing with a 360 Troy mower from Stanley and Sons in Nebo today I thought while I was mowing that I lean into the tree trunk on a hill the same way to balance the mower. I know several folks in nursing homes that cry in the night and want to leave this planet and escape living in a 6 by 8 nursing home bed they will die in and some are still happy when they see their kids, get ice cream, or can interact with a nurse and smile. You can be happy in a cave or a place, be miserable with things, or unhappy with stuff, or be filled with joy smelling the honeysuckle on my fence or watching the rabbit run by the cat in the back yard hiding out as I went by him. He is a calico orange and white that I have caught on a the wildlife camera before. We are in his range. There were indigo buntings on my bird feeder, I was able to help some folks I really like recently, and of all things bringing peanut butter cookies to a teacher in her 90's meant a lot to me seeing her smile. Sometimes doing tai chi in a pasture while the goat watches as I warm up for horse lessons or doing Repulse Monkey form while the donkey Leroy watches with ears out like a plane as he munches hay and thinks about it can make you happy. Sometimes what helps me the most is learning new things. I am getting involved with the local www.hopkinscountytcrimestoppers.com group and the Hopkins County Historical Society. It is always neat to deal with folks that loves books and the value of things that made us what we are. I will be heading toward Fort Campbell soon for some training and many are about to be dispatched overseas to try and protect folks like me. If you can buy lunch for a soldier or a policeman, it might be a good thing to do as Memorial Day approaches. It might even make you happy. What makes people happy? – Religion - CNN.com Blogs