Modern Problems with Old Solutions

Happy life

Psalm 1 CEB

The truly happy person doesn’t follow wicked advice, doesn’t stand on the road of sinners, and doesn’t sit with the disrespectful. Instead of doing those things, these persons love the Lord’s Instruction, and they recite God’s Instruction day and night! They are like a tree replanted by streams of water, which bears fruit at just the right time and whose leaves don’t fade. Whatever they do succeeds. That’s not true for the wicked! They are like dust that the wind blows away. And that’s why the wicked will have no standing in the court of justice— neither will sinners in the assembly of the righteous. The Lord is intimately acquainted with the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked is destroyed.

We spend a lot of time talking about our modern problems

Time

Resources

crumbling social & family dynamics

really, just name it

What does it mean for us to be happy?

Avoid Bad and Do what God wants?

That sounds great until you realize that to know the good stuff you must really take time to get to know God. To have a happy life you have to do some work and many of us things that the good life is one that has as little work to do as possible.

Does it have something to do with being satified?

The Old Practices

Prayer - a conversation with God

Reading your Bible - yep the scriptures have always been one of our best sources.

Community - true, deep and invested community

Servitude - being a 100% disciple