Saturday after Ash Wednesday

The place to be happy is here, The time to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so. — Robert Ingersoll

I think Lent is a difficult time to talk about happiness, but a necessary discussion. I think the quote comes from the movie, The Big Chill, –”I don’t know many happy people. How do they act?” As we meditate these 40 days, one focus should be on the parts and times of our lives that brought us happiness. Was it when we sailed a boat, wrote a symphony, educated a child, played a game, or grew a garden? It is in happiness we find God. In Eden he invited Adam to “walk with him.” In these times of stress, pressure, and never enough time; we forgot how to be happy. We forgot that happiness is here and now. We stopped walking with God. Lent is a time to find happiness once again.

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Webb Hubbell is the former Associate Attorney General of The United States. His novels, When Men Betray, Ginger Snaps, A Game of Inches, The Eighteenth Green, and The East End are published by Beaufort Books and are available online or at your local bookstore. When Men Betray won one of the IndieFab awards for best novel in 2014. Ginger Snaps and The Eighteenth Green won the IPPY Awards Gold Medal for best suspense/thriller. His latest, “Light of Day” will be on the bookstands soon.