{"id":167,"date":"2009-04-13T08:17:31","date_gmt":"2009-04-13T08:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/drnorrischumleysatisfiedlife\/2009\/04\/live-your-happiness-god-food-a.html"},"modified":"2009-04-13T08:17:31","modified_gmt":"2009-04-13T08:17:31","slug":"live-your-happiness-god-food-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/drnorrischumleysatisfiedlife\/2009\/04\/live-your-happiness-god-food-a.html","title":{"rendered":"Live Your Happiness: God, Food and Family &#8211; Comment of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What makes you happy?&nbsp; Is it losing weight and keeping it off?&nbsp; Having a lot of money, lots of cool stuff, and living a rich life?&nbsp; Is it that happiness depends on being famous or well-known?&nbsp; None of the above for our readers!&nbsp; Well, may be a little weight loss and staying healthy, certainly!<\/p>\n<p>From what our readers have been writing in the excellent comments this week &#8211; happiness is mostly about having a loving family, and being with God, who takes care of us in so many ways &#8211; being there when we need Him.<\/p>\n<p>Rick Millward, a regular reader and commenter on this blog, wrote one simple sentence that seems to speak for many of us: &#8220;I am happy when I can pay my bills, have food to eat and enjoy my family.&#8221;&nbsp; Thank you, Rick.&nbsp; Glad you&#8217;re with us.<\/p>\n<p>In these troubled times, having enough money and food is really important, and a big challenge for everyone.&nbsp; Everyone I know is having a hard time with money.&nbsp; Having enough, providing for our families, and ourselves, that&#8217;s high stress.&nbsp; We must have the basics, or life is really a struggle.<\/p>\n<p>Family is so important too.&nbsp; Loving others and being loved, being cared for and connected is so wonderful.&nbsp; Humans are creatures of connection; we cannot live very well alone; we need to be in communities, and families.<\/p>\n<p>Above all, our Creator, God, is to me the center of all life.&nbsp; God is there when you need Him, loving us, helping us.&nbsp; We are in God&#8217;s universal family, and we belong.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;d love to know what makes you happy.&nbsp; Please post below.&nbsp; Tell others about this community. Please bookmark\/favorite this blog.<\/p>\n<p>The original article, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/drnorrischumleysatisfiedlife\/2009\/04\/happiness-lives.html\">Happiness Lives, may be found by clicking here.<\/a>&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What makes you happy?&nbsp; Is it losing weight and keeping it off?&nbsp; Having a lot of money, lots of cool stuff, and living a rich life?&nbsp; Is it that happiness depends on being famous or well-known?&nbsp; None of the above for our readers!&nbsp; Well, may be a little weight loss and staying healthy, certainly! 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