HAPPINESS FROM COMMON THINGS

 

HAPPINESS FROM COMMON THINGS - Perhaps it takes a pandemic, or least something bordering on the serious, to cause us to find happiness in the common, simple things of life.  Being open to the blessings of each day, appreciating beauty wherever we see it, and finding happiness in everyday activities have taken on new meaning this past year.  Congregationalist preacher Henry Ward Beecher contended that the art of being happy is finding happiness in the common things of life that we are most likely to take for granted.