Not here to be happy

Happiness.
A word the world dreams of having and holding and keeping forever.
Ah, a nice word. Very nice.
But is it possible? Humanly possible?
Hardly.
Happiness. Have we ever achieved it? Some claim this very thing. But have they really had it?
No. Not true happiness. Humans are forever trying to grasp that slippery emotion, trying to feel its sweet comfort. But they can't- not without God.
Happiness, truly, is of God. We can find it, yes, but only in Him.
Sometimes it seems like happiness- what's happiness???- doesn't exist. Sometimes we are drowning in sorrow, anger, hurt, anything and everything but happiness. We stumble, we cry, we're hard-pressed to get back up. It's hard. It's horrible. It's not happy.
We tend to drop our heads and lose our faith and generally assume the world is absolutely over, when happiness hides itself from us.
Because- we want to be happy.
And nothing is wrong with being, or wanting to be, happy. But when we take the extremes to create a fake, sickly-sweet shell of what we think seems like happiness, then we are stuck, caught in our own trap.
But when we try innocently and honestly to be happy and fail, we get so low it's a wonder we ever get back up.
And then we turn to God.
He is always there. He has always been there. He always will be there.
We aren't here to be happy, no sirree.
We are here to spread the Word, and to be a blessing for life, and to fulfill God's purpose for our lives.
If happiness doesn't come, so be it.
We aren't, after all, here to be happy. 🌿