Happiness and Freedom - What are they?
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These are questions that we sought since the beginning of time.
You can not buy happiness and you can not buy freedom!
Yet, many have tried for thousands of years, and failed.
But, if you know the truth, and the truth shall set you free ...
John 8:31-32 ESV - The Truth Will Set You Free - So Jesus - Bible ...
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+8%3A31-32&version=ESV
The Truth Will Set You Free - So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know.
I read somewhere recently:
"Happiness" is liking the job that you have and
"Freedom" is doing what you love!
Money can not buy happiness, yet, many have found happiness while poor in money but rich in spirits.
I have decided long ago that "happiness" is a decision.
Matthew 6:25-33 New International Version (NIV)
Do Not Worry
25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life[a]?
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28 “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? 31 So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
As for "freedom"?
We are not free until we get out of the control of the "invisible hands of power" - it has many names, but I will not utter those words.
In short, "freedom" is a mindset:
To achieve freedom, strive to remove any and all dependencies and create many inter-dependencies and only as necessary. Above all, determine to be happy while alone in this world, alone for the right reasons.
But, we are not alone as in (https://www.onlythebible.com/Poems/Footprints-in-the-Sand-Poem.html):
Footprints in the Sand Poem | Beautiful Poem from Only the Bible.com
Apr 26, 2010 - One night I dreamed a dream. As I was walking along the beach with my Lord. Across the dark sky flashed scenes from my life. For each scene, I noticed two sets of footprints in the sand, One belonging to me and one to my Lord. After the last scene of my life flashed before me, I looked back at the footprints ...
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