IN LIFE, WE ARE HAPPIEST WHEN...

 

      A man and his girlfriend were married.  It was a large celebration.
All of their friends and family came to see the lovely ceremony and to
partake of the festivities and celebrations.  A wonderful time was had by
all.
    The bride was gorgeous in her white wedding gown and the groom was
very dashing in his black tuxedo. Everyone could tell that the love they
had for each other was true.
    A few months later, the wife comes to the husband with a proposal: "I
read in a magazine, a while ago, about how we can strengthen our marriage."
she offered.
    "Each of us will write a list of the things that we find a bit annoying
with the other person. Then, we can talk about how we can fix them together
and make our lives happier together."
    The husband agreed. So each of them went to a separate room in the
house and thought of the things that annoyed them about the other. They
thought about this question for the rest of the day and wrote down what
they came up with. The next morning, at the breakfast table, they decided
that they would go over their lists.
    "I'll start," offered the wife. She took out her list.  It had many
items on it.  Enough to fill 3 pages, in fact. As she started reading the
list of the little annoyances, she noticed that tears were starting to
appear in her husbands eyes.
      "What's wrong?" she asked. "Nothing" the husband replied, "keep
reading your list."
      The wife continued to read until she had read all three pages to her
husband. She neatly placed her list on the table and folded her hands over
top of it.
      "Now, you read your list and then we'll talk about the things on both
of our lists."  She said happily.
      Quietly the husband stated, "I don't have anything on my list. I
think that you are perfect the way that you are. I don't want you to change
anything for me. You are lovely and wonderful and I wouldn't want to try
and change anything about you."
      The wife, touched by his honesty and the depth of his love for her
and his acceptance of her, turned her head and wept.

      IN LIFE, there are enough times when we are disappointed, depressed
and annoyed. We don't really have to go looking for them. We have a
wonderful world that is full of beauty, light and promise. Why waste time
in this world looking for the bad, disappointing or annoying when we can
look around us, and see the wondrous things before us?
    I believe that WE ARE HAPPIEST WHEN we see and praise the good and try
our best to forget the bad. Nobody's perfect but we can find perfectness in
them to change the way we see them.
  * We are not trying to condone what is bad. Correction does much, but
encouragement does more. "The blue of heaven is larger than the clouds."