Because Im Happy

I refuse to wander through the foggy world wide web sniffing out the saddest most terrible news stories.

I already know the world is a sad, hard place.

I refuse to sit in a dark and damp cave of mourning and self pity, looking back at all the pain and hurt from the past and wondering what life would be like if it hadn't happened.

I have a hope of a future where all my morning will be turned to joy.

I refuse to only see my own mistakes and go stumbling around through life blindly bumping past new experiences because I am too ashamed of my past.

I have been forgiven.

I refuse to be the angry blogger who hunts around the blogosphere every morning for some juicy error so I can whine and complain because someone isn't holding to the same standards I am. 

I am not the judge.

I refuse to reblog, repost, or hit that little share button on ANY post or comment that has the sole purpose of gasping about how some human failed at presenting a topic the way I think it should have been done.

I do not know everything.

I refuse to criticize people when I think they didn't do their job correctly.... that's their job not mine.

I am human too, I fail constantly.

I refuse to allow worry lines to cover my forehead because my government is corrupt. 

I have a higher power that governs all and already has it all figure out.

I refuse to adhere to such a strict set of life rules that my demeanor becomes either angry at the world, or I become such a skittish basketcase that I no longer how to live a normal life.

I am LOVED by my God. 

I refuse to let all the built up anger at all the wrongs "christianity" has done to me boil inside me.

They are not my judge, I must only stand correctly in His eyes. 

I refuse to allow all the injury others have done me in the past to fester inside me.

I must forgive, as I have been forgiven.

Because I'm happy. Even though I've lost a lot, I've been given so much more. Even though the world stinks, my government is corrupt, and terrible tragic things happen everyday I have a brighter better future. Even though I have rules in life that I adhere by and believe in it is not my job to tackle every small wrong done through human fallibleness. Yeah, there is wrong and sin in the world, yeah there are things that we must stand up against, I'll reserve my fervor for the big things.  

Christians should be the happiest people in the universe. We have hope, we know our future is secure. There is no reason that we should be the grumpiest, touchiest people on the planet.

I'm happy, not because life is sunshine and roses but because I choose to be happy. 

I choose to be happy.

I am happy.

Fine Print: Hedgehog picture shamelessly stolen from pinterest because hedgies are the happiest things in the world and if you cant smile when you see him then I give up. And if you want something happy to hear may I recommend this?