IS TRUE HAPPINESS REALLY POSSIBLE? (4 OF 6)
by Jeff Schreve
Scripture: Ecclesiastes 1, Ecclesiastes 2
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Is True Happiness Really Possible? (4 of 6)
Series: Life's Big Question
Jeff Schreve
Ecclesiastes 1-2
Well, we have been having graduations just the last couple of days, graduations in this room. And people are getting excited about graduating. And it's always an exciting time of year. I was thinking about my high school graduation back in the day. We were all excited. We were the first graduating class of Cypress Creek High School. And I remember that the administration had the seniors write down and they bounded up - it wasn't in the yearbook, but it was in a separate book - and they asked us questions, and we answered these questions, and then they compiled it all and put it all together. Well, one of the questions was, where do you see yourself down the road? Where do you see yourself in five years or ten years, something like that? And some of the answers were designed to be funny.
Some of the answers were inside jokes where, you know me and my buddies might get them. Nobody else would get them. Some of the answers were kind of off the wall. And some were serious where they saw themselves in five years. But they all had the same direction. Where did people see themselves in five years? Where did they want to be in five years? We all wanted to be happy, happy.
Nobody wants to go through life unhappy. Everybody in this room, everybody under the sound of my voice, we would say, ''That's what we want in life. We want to be happy in life.'' I mean, from the time you're little and you hear stories, you are introduced to the phrase, ''...and they lived happily ever after.'' You say, ''That's right. That's what I want.'' And in our Preamble to the Constitution we have the ''...pursuit of happiness...'' And we have happiness put in there, and we're like, ''Yeah, happiness, that's what we want.'' But so many people are not happy. As a matter of fact, many, many, many people are unhappy, very unhappy. Single people are unhappy. They want to be married. M ...
Series: Life's Big Question
Jeff Schreve
Ecclesiastes 1-2
Well, we have been having graduations just the last couple of days, graduations in this room. And people are getting excited about graduating. And it's always an exciting time of year. I was thinking about my high school graduation back in the day. We were all excited. We were the first graduating class of Cypress Creek High School. And I remember that the administration had the seniors write down and they bounded up - it wasn't in the yearbook, but it was in a separate book - and they asked us questions, and we answered these questions, and then they compiled it all and put it all together. Well, one of the questions was, where do you see yourself down the road? Where do you see yourself in five years or ten years, something like that? And some of the answers were designed to be funny.
Some of the answers were inside jokes where, you know me and my buddies might get them. Nobody else would get them. Some of the answers were kind of off the wall. And some were serious where they saw themselves in five years. But they all had the same direction. Where did people see themselves in five years? Where did they want to be in five years? We all wanted to be happy, happy.
Nobody wants to go through life unhappy. Everybody in this room, everybody under the sound of my voice, we would say, ''That's what we want in life. We want to be happy in life.'' I mean, from the time you're little and you hear stories, you are introduced to the phrase, ''...and they lived happily ever after.'' You say, ''That's right. That's what I want.'' And in our Preamble to the Constitution we have the ''...pursuit of happiness...'' And we have happiness put in there, and we're like, ''Yeah, happiness, that's what we want.'' But so many people are not happy. As a matter of fact, many, many, many people are unhappy, very unhappy. Single people are unhappy. They want to be married. M ...
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