My Thoughts on Personal Happiness

So I just found this in my drafts...mights as well go ahead and publish it, I guess!

So I've been stewing in these thoughts for a while now, and I think it's time to share. Over the last few weeks, I've noticed something about myself: I am constantly thinking about what will make me happy. In which career can I see myself being happy? How much money do I need to make to be happy? Which food, at the moment, will make me happy? The list, of course, goes on and on and on and on. I guess there is nothing really inherently wrong about that, but the result has been nauseating. I've become obsessed with running my own life and making the plan that I think will work best, and I must confess ("...and I ask...you my brothers and sisters to pray for me to the Lord our God.") that I have concluded far too many thoughts and conversations about theology, morality, and politics with "Well, I think..." or "In my opinion..." etc. What I have come to realize is that I have no idea how to make myself or anybody else happy in the long-term. I know what feels good at the moment, but what about tomorrow, or next year, or twenty years down the road (if God sees fit to allow me to live that long!)? And here's the (very hard to accept) conclusion that I have come to:

I have no idea how to make myself happy, because I can't. Joy, real joy, is a fruit of the Spirit!! (Galatians 5:22) Unless I am plugged in to Christ and His Church, there is NO possibility for real joy; all there is outside of Him is a momentary impression of joy that doesn't last. So if I am to have real joy, I must prepare myself to be formed by the Holy Ghost into a vessel that can hold REAL joy...the kind that lasts, not the temporary fleeting kind that sin offers "for a short season". (Hebrews 11:25)

An update for updates' sake!

WOW! So...I stink at keeping up with a blog apparently! haha. I thought I might as well post an update, and who knows: I may actually start blogging again!

Ok..well...thanks be to God, I'm still Catholic and still ever so grateful for that tremendous grace!

I'm getting ready to begin my third year at Middle Tennessee State University in the Organizational Communication program. OH and I was just elected Internal Director for MTSU Catholic! It should be a great year!

I'm still praying and discerning God's will for my life after school, so who knows (but God) how that will turn out.

So yeah, that's the basic update. Hopefully, I'll be posting more "musings" soon!