If you're happy and you know it!

This has to be every preschooler's favorite song.  I know that I LOVED it, and as an adult, I still do.  Let's take a journey back to those care free childhood days.  This is a simple say and do song.  If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands!  If you're happy and you know it, stomp your feet!  If you're happy and you know it then you really want to show it, if you're happy and you know it clap your hands!  I just had a mental flashback to Good Hope PreSchool in Winterville, NC of me and my preschool cohorts just going at it and prancing around the classroom.

This then raises a question.  Are you happy?  Let's admit it, if you're not happy, you're probably not going to want to clap your hands, stomp your feet, shout Amen, or in any other way show it.  Simply put, happy is defined as enjoying or demonstrating pleasure.  I know that in our personal walks that we have challenges with ourselves, the spouse, the children, the colleagues and boss.  These are just the players, and not the circumstances and drama that impede our happiness.

But as the elect and called of God, is your walk indicative of demonstrated pleasure?  In your office can your colleagues tell that you have joy?  Can your students tell that you have love in your heart for your discipline, and the ones whom you serve?  Can your family members see the zeal that you have for God's kingdom?  Here's an even better question.  Do you share your joy and happiness with others?  Joy, happiness and laughter are all contagious.  Spread a little today, you and the people that you come in contact with will be glad that you did.  If you're happy and you know it, then you really ought to show it, Clap your hands!  Stomp your feet!  Shout Amen!

Peace,
Karsten