Are you happy?

Question

with the hand you've been dealt in life.... or would you like to take some more cards?

Nice answers people :-)

Answer 1

I have too many cards rofl
I would not say I am happy , I have a long way to go for that

but I love my family , I understand that with a family comes many hurdles
I accept them
I am content

( feels weird , for someone who promotes love not being able to say she is happy eek lol )

Answer 2

I am happy/ok with most of the cards I've been dealt. But every once in a while, I wish I knew how to play one or two of them better!

Answer 3

I'm pretty pleased with my life. There's some things I wish I had done differently, but it has nothing to do with the hand I've been dealt. We make our own destiny.

Answer 4

I'd love to find the consistent good health, money management, and good metabolism cards, but I know I'm better off than 95 percent of the world just because I'm fed, clothed, cool in summer, warm in winter, and able to say pretty much what I want on an internet site.

Answer 5

Actually suffering and happiness are not contraries.

One can be happy in the deepest suffering, because one is in union with Jesus Christ, who transformed our suffering through His.

With a purely secular person, suffering is necessarily the frustruation of our happiness, seeing nothing above the secular, but with the Christian, there is a spiritual transcendence over the physical, which allows happiness of soul while the body and the emotions are in the deepest pain.

It is an incredible paradox, but it is true (this is not to be confused with Masochism, which derives sensual pleasure from pain, which is a perversion).

Many of the saints experienced this.

Here is a short clip from St. Louis de Montfort which explains this.





The Paradox of the Cross
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Passage from "The Love of Eternal Wisdom"
by St. Louis de Montfort.





"Do not think that, to be more triumphant, He [Jesus] relinquished or rejected the Cross after His death. Far from it. He united Himself so closely to it and became, as it were, so incorporated with it, that no angel or man, no creature in heaven or on earth can separate Him from it. Their bond is indissoluble; their union is eternal. Never the Cross without Jesus; nor Jesus without the Cross.

By His death the ignominies of the Cross were made so glorious, its poverty and bareness so opulent, its pains so sweet, it hardness so attractive, that it became as it were deified and an object of adoration for angels and men. Jesus now demands that, with Him, all His subjects adore it. It is not His wish that a worship even of a relative adoration should be given to any other creatures however high they be, such as His most holy Mother, but this worship is due and rendered only to His dear Cross.

On the day of the last judgment He will bring to an end all the relics of the Saints, even the most worthy of respect, but as for those of His Cross He will command the chief Seraphim and Cherubim to gather up throughout the whole world all the particles of the true Cross, and they will be so well reunited by His loving omnipotence that they will form but one Cross, the very Cross upon which He died. He will have His Cross borne in triumph by the angels who will sing its joyful praises. His Cross will go before Him placed upon the most brilliant cloud that ever appeared. He will judge the world with His Cross and by it. What will be the joy of the friends of the Cross on beholding it. What will be the despair of its enemies, who not being able to bear the brilliant sight of this Cross will cry out to the mountains to fall upon them, and to the depths of hell to swallow them up!"

p 91.


** Footnote on page - It should be carefully noted that Montfort speaks here of the worship of *adoration* which the Church renders to no other creature but the True Cross on which Christ died.
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Now consider this:

"Cursed is he who hangs on a tree." Deuteronomy (21:23)




Oh infinite paradoxes of our Catholic Faith - JM
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Answer 6

Im very happy with the hand i've been dealt. And, you know, i suck at poker

Answer 7

I'm very happy with where I am, and I wouldn't change a single aspect of my life, because its all of the good and bad of my past that has lead me here

Answer 8

I'll stay with what I've got. You never know when the next card out of the desk might be the kiss of death.

Answer 9

Yes, I am happy. I may as well be. This is my life. Also....
There is not too much we control in this life, but we do control our attitudes. I choose to have a good one, for having a bad attitude only makes YOU unhappy.

Answer 10

welliv had one of the worst cards you can get in the first world

i wouldnt change anything though because then i would most likely not be the person i am today

im happy with who i am but not with my friends,body,family,school and where i live
o well things wil gettin better one day