{"id":1555,"date":"2021-07-02T09:05:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T14:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.steveblaising.com\/content\/?p=1555"},"modified":"2021-07-07T15:23:12","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T20:23:12","slug":"how-to-unleash-happiness-all-over-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.steveblaising.com\/content\/how-to-unleash-happiness-all-over-america\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Unleash Happiness All Over America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are you satisfied with your portion of life, liberty and happiness?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7209\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7209\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-7209\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.steveblaising.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Joy-blog.steveblaising-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Happiness and joy\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.steveblaising.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Joy-blog.steveblaising-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.steveblaising.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Joy-blog.steveblaising-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.steveblaising.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Joy-blog.steveblaising-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.steveblaising.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Joy-blog.steveblaising.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7209\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Life is good in the USA\/Frank McKenna\/Unsplash<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Here is a treasured formula straight from the Declaration of Independence.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Wrong Order for Happiness<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>I believe that America\u2019s distress comes from reversing the order laid out in the Declaration of Independence.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u201cLife, liberty and the pursuit of happiness\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Instead, we pursue happiness first and then liberty hoping this lineup makes life.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1573 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.steveblaising.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/lazy-teenager.jpg\" alt=\"Happiness is me first?\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.steveblaising.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/lazy-teenager.jpg 400w, https:\/\/blog.steveblaising.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/lazy-teenager-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Can you blame us? \u00a0Media advertising promotes happiness first because advertising is designed to make us believe we&#8217;re not happy!<\/p>\n<p>Social media saturates us with dissatisfaction.<\/p>\n<p>When appetite is numero uno, liberty degenerates into license.<\/p>\n<p>If it feels good, pursue it!\u00a0 Buy it!\u00a0 Borrow it!\u00a0 Or <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.steveblaising.com\/content\/how-america-can-rescue-this-tragedy-for-triumph\/\">steal it<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Freedom in that sense melts into anarchy.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Right Order for Happiness<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>But, real freedom is life first.<\/p>\n<p>Life, liberty and then the pursuit of happiness.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.steveblaising.com\/content\/how-to-transform-your-rut-into-a-runway\/\">This formula for happiness<\/a> begins with life and that life comes from God who . . .<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cendowed\u201d us<\/li>\n<li>\u201centitled\u201d us<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Our framers of the Declaration of Independence declared this.<\/p>\n<p>They didn\u2019t believe in freedom to do what you feel.<\/p>\n<p>They believed in freedom to become all you can be.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>A Skeptic\u2019s Turnaround with God<\/strong><\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1582\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1582\" style=\"width: 276px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1582\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.steveblaising.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/St-James-copy.jpg\" alt=\"Happiness discovered by St. James\" width=\"276\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.steveblaising.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/St-James-copy.jpg 276w, https:\/\/blog.steveblaising.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/St-James-copy-219x300.jpg 219w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 276px) 100vw, 276px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1582\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">James\/Peter Paul Ruben<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Few had a closer vantage point to God\u2019s idea of liberty and freedom than James, the half-brother of Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>At first, he was skeptical along with the rest of Jesus\u2019 family.<\/p>\n<p>If anyone can smell \u201cfake\u201d about who you think you are or what you\u2019re selling, it\u2019s your half-brother.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u201cFor even his own brothers did not believe in him.\u201d<\/strong> John 7:5<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But, it was James, after his life altering encounter with the resurrected Jesus (1 Cor. 15:7) who found the key to happiness.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><sup>\u201c<\/sup>Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.\u00a0 He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we might be a kind of first fruits of all he created.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong> James 1:17-18<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Life from the Father of Heavenly Lights<\/strong><\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1577\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1577\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1577\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.steveblaising.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Northern-lights-Thorsmork-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"Northern lights and happiness\" width=\"660\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.steveblaising.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Northern-lights-Thorsmork-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.steveblaising.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Northern-lights-Thorsmork-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.steveblaising.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Northern-lights-Thorsmork-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1577\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Thorsmork, Iceland\/Photo by Jonatan Pie on Unsplash<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Pursue life first and keep pursuing it and listen to what James says.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>\u201cBut whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues in it&#8211; not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it&#8211; they will be blessed in what they do.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0 James 1:25<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A God-blessed life is not freedom to do what you feel, its freedom to be all you can be.<\/p>\n<p>The good life is freedom that is guided, directed and conditioned by . . .<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>God Almighty<\/li>\n<li>God the Creator<\/li>\n<li>God the Supreme Judge<\/li>\n<li>God the Divine Provider<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>56 Men<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>On a hot July day in 1776, 56 men laid it on the line.<\/p>\n<p>They took tremendous risk against a wealthy and mighty British force.<\/p>\n<p>They pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor.<\/p>\n<p>And it cost them all of that.<\/p>\n<p>Facing those odds, the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence paid a dear price.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1585\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1585\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1585\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.steveblaising.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Writing-desk-of-Jefferson-c-300x234.jpg\" alt=\"Happiness from Jefferson's desk\" width=\"300\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.steveblaising.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Writing-desk-of-Jefferson-c-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.steveblaising.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Writing-desk-of-Jefferson-c.jpg 665w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1585\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Writing desk of Thomas Jefferson\/Natural Museum of American History<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Think of that.\u00a0 56 men changed the world with this written declaration about the nature of<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Man<\/li>\n<li>God<\/li>\n<li>Governments<\/li>\n<li>Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Think of the impact.<\/p>\n<p>56 men who saw . . .<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>God as Creator<\/li>\n<li>God as Life Giver<\/li>\n<li>God as the Author of Freedom<\/li>\n<li>God as Supreme Judge and<\/li>\n<li>God as the Divine Provider<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>A Nation of Immigrants and Dissenters<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>I think it takes outrageous determination to take life in a new direction.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re a nation of immigrants, pioneers and dissenters.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.steveblaising.com\/content\/rage-in-the-u-s-is-marching-on-what-do-we-do\/#more-499\">marching against political opinions<\/a>, let\u2019s dissent against evil, oppression and hate.<\/p>\n<p>You and I are the descendants of dissenters, folks who were willing to pay the price to pursue life 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