I had no idea when I decided to follow John Kehoe's lead and think about happiness as something to be practiced as opposed to something to be pursued that it would generate so much enthusiasm. Thank you, John. We sold out all of your books in two Sundays. I expect there will be a demand for more by next week.
I also wasn't ready for the excitement that is palpable in the room on Sundays before and especially after the Sunday celebration. A lot of it has to do with the music. Thanks are due to our wonderful music director, Diane Lines. Thanks for introducing Dawn Pemberton to us and us to her. Dawn come back soon. Jonathan Bruce. You wowed us with your rendition of the Happiness Song from You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown.
The theme yesterday emerged unplanned from all of the material available; resources, music and even those in attendance. Children know how to be happy. Ernest Holmes inspired the Lesson. I picked up on Ernie picking up on Jesus. "Unless you become like little children, you shall not enter the kingdom." Translation, "Until you remember what little children know you won't enter the kingdom of happiness, BUT as soon as you do, you'll be there. (SOM p. 456). The Law of Good the trust in which resides all happiness (please excuse the weird construction. I don't know any other way to get it out) is not something outside of us we have to get. It is not something inside of us that we have to find. It IS us right now; an option we choose to exercise moment by moment.
Felt to me like by the end of the Celebration on Sunday, we all got there. Felt like we made that choice.
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