the secret to happiness...

[jayne]

http://www.hall4bc04.org/secret.htm for my friends and family

[Still in Limbo]

So Very True My Dear Friend!! I have never found Money or Material things the True Happiness in My Life, they are Great to have and Use, but the Simple things that are Natural and True Emotions are the Riches of the World!! As My Mom Used to tell Me when I was Small, "My Day is Complete, I Heard a Child Laugh"! I was also told that it's not what You Own in this World that Matters, it's what You have the Ability to Use while You're Here, I have Never seen a Brinks Truck Follow a Hearse!! So as Your "Secret" Says, it's Trust, Faith, and the Little things that Matter!!

[jayne]

and knowing how to put in a zipper..........but thats another long terriable icky God forsaken story.......I can build any outfit start to finish but I cannot I just cannot master putting in a darn zipper.............

[red1030]

jayne... this is so true...I have always related happiness to contentment... contentment of who you are and contentment in the choices you make... mostly happiness..is believing and loving the Lord who knows and understand my NEEDS not wants more than I ever will..thanks for the reminder..love Red

[RNvic]

Jayne= thank you for sharring this beautiful story with us.

[MJC]

Jayne,
That is so beautiful.....thanks for sharing it with us. I copied the link and will be sending it out to my address book. God bless you my friend and I hope this note finds your eyes doing better today.

Cajun Hugsssssssssss,
MJC

[Babebahn]

Thank you so much...simply beautiful!

[DH's better half]

jayne Wrote:and knowing how to put in a zipper..........

....thank goodness I'm not the only one who has forsaken trying to put in a zipper...LOL

[UndercovrAngel]

Very beautiful Jayne...thanks for posting it.

As for zippers.. I had them mastered by 10 and could almost do them in my sleep. But then, my momma made all us girls our clothes at that time, and was a professional in upholstery as her job. She did custom quilting on much of the furniture that she re-upholstered. I was cooking, sewing, washing clothes and dishes, and cleaning the house by the time I was 7 years of age.

I sure wish that things were as simple now as they were back when I grew up. You knew your neighbors, could leave your home unlocked when you went away and nothing was disturbed when you came home, families spent time together doing things other than sleeping, and children learned how to take care of themselves and were prepared for the world when they left home. We didn't sit in front of tv's or puters playing video games or texting on cell phones, but spent our time outside playing with neighborhood children that we spent many years growing up with and attending the same schools. During the summer, we spent our evenings outside playing hide n go seek, tag, kick the can etc till it was time to go in for bed..generally well after dark. Now you can't allow your children these freedoms with all the crime and drugs that have hit the streets. Doors must be locked up tight, and many don't even know who their neighbors are. How I long for those fun filled days of freedom that are lost to others.

Angel ^j^

[RNvic]

Angel- how right you are. Wish there were more days like these. My children were lucky to have grown up in a small town where days of knowing there neighbors as going to school from kindergarden thur high school together, were less than 100 kids in there grade. Each moved away to the city after graduation and now all live in small towns except the yongest and he wants to move back to the town he grew up in, and we will as soon as we find a place to move, just is not very many places to move to.