When I was a little girl, we had a pond behind our house. There was a picturesque meadow on the other side of that pond filled with beautiful flowering weeds each summer. There were those tiny purple flowering weeds, dandelions galore, and it seems like yellow, I recall, maybe a few daffodils here and there. […]

Do you remember the Juicy Juice commercial jingle: “The happy comes straight from the fruit”? As soon as I heard that, I immediately thought of John 15.    I actually spent much of one year about 15 years ago in that chapter of the Bible until it became a significant part of my spiritual DNA. […]

“Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path.” Ps 119:105 Are you stumbling through the dark in life?  Last week at the end of the day, the electricity went off at the office just before time to go and of course, just as I was trying to find something. […]

Did you know I just found out this Happy Monday Blog could LITERALLY BE A LIFE SAVER?! Have you heard of the “Monday Blues” or “Just Another Manic Monday?!” Guess what? More heart attacks happen on Monday than any other day of the week. Researchers have found that “The Monday Peak” stems from the stress […]

 “No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it.” ‭‭1 Corinthians‬ ‭10:13‬ ‭NIV‬‬   You see, I wasn’t born […]

You’ve done it. I’ve done it. Put on that happy face when really, inside you were dying. They say, “Don’t wear a mask.” Then, they also say, “Fake it ‘til ya make it.” Which one is right? Well, of course there are times when we are at work, and we have to just buck up […]

“17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, 18 while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things […]

I heard Terry Savelle Foy say that some famous guy (whose name I should remember but don’t) said this often, “Do it now.” It was his motto he lived by. I like that. It reminded me of the section of each chapter of my book “Happy ANYWAY”. The section is called Own Your Happy. It’s […]