After a day of rain and thunder, driving home tonight to fluffy clouds and a clear sky was pleasurable. Traveling music tonight was a tune in my head from the Wizard of Oz and one that I hum to myself often during my workday. It was brought up again at book study tonight and so it is stuck in my brain. The title I am unsure of but it goes like this “If I only had a brain, a heart, some courage”. Now you’ll be humming it.

Tonight at class we talked about where and in what we find our idenity. The homework is to fill in the blank If I only had_______I could be happy/content/significant. Several different examples were brought up such as if we only had a closer relationship with our spouse or some praise, or recognition we could be happy.

When we find our idenity in God as his child we are made whole, lacking in nothing. This truth is the key to lasting fulfillment. Everything else we run after is false, temporary pleasure. Jobs, status, family, sports, vacations, money, children, spouses, homes & furnishings are all part of life, but were never meant to fill the place in our heart that was meant for God.

What is it that you think you need to be happy?