{"id":4930,"date":"2012-03-15T13:29:08","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T13:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=4930"},"modified":"2012-03-15T13:40:30","modified_gmt":"2012-03-15T13:40:30","slug":"happiness-vs-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=4930","title":{"rendered":"Happiness vs Joy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Happiness is a good thing, in fact our forefathers wrote in our Declaration of Independence that we should have the right to the pursuit of happiness. \u00a0\u00a0 Happy\u00a0|\u02c8hap\u0113|adjective\u00a0(\u00a0-pier\u00a0,\u00a0-piest\u00a0)1\u00a0feeling\u00a0or\u00a0showing\u00a0pleasure\u00a0or\u00a0contentment. \u00a0The only problem is happiness is based on circumstances. \u00a0You got a raise in your salary, you feel great, you get laid off, you feel bad! \u00a0Happiness is alway based on what’s happening around you. \u00a0Joy is, on the other hand, is created from the inside, it’s the state of great Peace. \u00a0Peace is not circumstantial. When we turn over our lives into God’s hands he brings a peace that passes the world’s understanding, He brings real joy into our lives. \u00a0Paul was often in prison, but he himself declare he was not in prison he was in His Lord. When you live in a constant relationship with Him, you rise above the daily circumstances, or at least you can! \u00a0When you truly trust in Him you can truly See His face, Feel His presence, and Trust in His love….<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Why would a person that had the best offered to him, accept anything less.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Blessings,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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the pilgrim<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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  Happiness is a good thing, in fact our forefathers wrote in our Declaration of Independence that we should have the right to the pursuit of happiness. \u00a0\u00a0 Happy\u00a0|\u02c8hap\u0113|adjective\u00a0(\u00a0-pier\u00a0,\u00a0-piest\u00a0)1\u00a0feeling\u00a0or\u00a0showing\u00a0pleasure\u00a0or\u00a0contentment. \u00a0The only problem is happiness is based on circumstances. \u00a0You got a raise in your salary, you feel great, you get laid off, you feel bad! […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chronicles"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4930"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4935,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4930\/revisions\/4935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}