Don't let your religion fade away. Why It brings you happier life.

Motherhood life is an endless loop of no sleep and lot of stress. Your mental strings are pulled tight as a violin. Thinking about God can bring peace of mind.  Active religious practices are associated with longer, healthier and happier live, isn’t it? Don’t let the religion fade away because it brings you happier life.

1. Faith always is the best answer

The world is full of mysteries and everywhere there are questions.  God teaches us that much of what we see is so complex we cannot understand why and how it occurred. Religion offers hope. When we are suffering from sorrow, anguish, and pain, religion gives us hope and peace of mind.  We never know what is the plan from God arranges for us, but we do know God has always been there for us.  His plan is better than our dream.

The times when you have seen only one set of footprints in the sand, is when I carry you (from a religious poem)

2. Fallacy of we have abundant time

I had heard a story told by a priest:
A senior devil asked a junior to guess what would be the evilest thing to deceive most people.  The junior devil thought the answer might be telling people God is non-existence or devil is non-existence. The senior devil said both answers were incorrect. The evilest thing to deceive people was to tell them they had abundant time.

Well, yes, we have the tendency of wasting time as we mistakenly think that we have abundant time. It’s not uncommon having the habit in our daily life such as..

1 hour daydreaming
2 hours on the couch
2 hours gaming
2 hours of social media browsing

Now it’s 3 pm
Half day had gone
What had I done?

Busy is better than bored, having too much to do is a positive problem of abundance whereas having too little to do is a negative problem of shortage. We tell ourselves find something to do because the feeling that we have too much to do is much more pleasing than the feeling that we have nothing to do.

"Later" is easier and more convenience and it may become never.

How are you closer to achieve your goal of fitness, learning, wellness, and so on?

3. Generosity

Give your time to help others make you happier. Anything you do will not only help the world, it will also help you. You will feel good about yourself. You have a sense of purpose and feel appreciated.

A generous person will prosper; whoever refreshes others will be refreshed (proverbs 11:25)

A Chinese proverb also said that:

If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap
If you want happiness for a day, go fishing
If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune
If you want happiness for a life, help someone else

4. Kindness

While someone said that to be kind is better than to be right.  It would be great to always be right, wouldn’t it? Even if you are right, there is nothing to be gained from letting yourself become adversarial to your loved ones.  What’s the merit to win all the battles but lost the opportunities to spend enjoyable time with those you care about?

Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving one another, just as God also forgave you in Christ. (Ephesians 4:31-32)