Happy Camper
What makes you a happy camper?
- Vacations to national parks such as Bryce Canyon?
- Roasting marshmallows and making smores?
- Fishing at a local lake?
- Attending or remembering summer camps?
- Relaxing in the back yard after a hard day’s work?
If you are a happy camper, you are content.
You enjoy life or at least the moment.
Contentment may occur in two ways:
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Based on circumstances: If everything goes as you wish, you are a happy camper. If circumstances don’t go your way, you are not.
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Regardless of circumstances: You may have occasional unhappy moments. However, you usually remain satisfied whatever happens.
If you never learn to be content, you will never be a happy camper.
You will often feel:
- Angry
- Irritable
- Upset
- Displeased with everyone and everything
Let God’s joy fill you with contentment.
When you find joy in life, circumstances may not always make you feel happy. However, you can be a happy camper. You experience purpose and pleasure in all life’s ups and downs, You also share God’s joy with others.
“I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want “(Philippians 4:12 NIV).
Thanks to Carole Fite for the suggestion.
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