God Wants You to Be Happy

Life is happening on ordinary Tuesdays too 💛

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about happiness.

Not the big, exciting, movie-montage kind of happiness. Not the “toes in the sand in Hawaii” kind of happiness 🌴 (although I fully support that kind too 😂).

I mean everyday happiness.

Ordinary life happiness.

The kind that exists while:

• the dishes still need to be done

• the goals still aren’t reached

• the prayers still aren’t fully answered

• the future still feels uncertain

• and life is still unfolding

Because I think many of us unconsciously turn happiness into a destination.

We think happiness lives:

• in the engagement 💍

• in the smaller jeans size

• in the house

• in the next season of life

• in finally feeling confident

• in finally having enough time to relax

And while there’s nothing wrong with wanting those things, here’s the problem:

We attach our happiness to those things.

And that means happiness quietly becomes conditional.

Not now.
Later.

Not on the path.
At the destination.

But recently I started asking myself a different question:

What if the path IS the largest part of life?

Seriously…think about it.

How much of life is actually lived at arrival points?

The vacation lasts a week.
The wedding lasts a day.
The goal gets replaced by another goal.
The exciting milestone eventually becomes normal life.

Most of life is lived in the middle.

In process.
In becoming.
In ordinary Tuesdays.

And if happiness only exists at destinations, we end up emotionally postponing most of our lives.

That thought hit me hard.

Especially after realizing how often I subconsciously tell myself:
“I’ll enjoy life more when…”

Maybe you do this too.

Maybe happiness feels like something waiting for you slightly ahead in the future:

• after life calms down

• after you lose the weight

• after you meet someone

• after you feel more confident

• after things finally fall into place

But what if happiness was never supposed to exist only at arrival points?

What if God intended happiness to also exist on the path? 🌿

Not perfect happiness.
Not constant positive emotion.
Not pretending hard things aren’t hard.

Life still includes:

• grief

• disappointment

• loneliness

• stress

• uncertainty

Of course it does.

But happiness and hardship are not always opposites.

Sometimes happiness looks more like:

• connection

• meaning

• peace

• growth

• hope

• engagement

• aliveness

Even while life is still unfolding.

And honestly, this became very real for me recently through something as silly as my bathroom scale 😂

I’ve been trying to lose those last pesky pounds. You know the kind. The pounds that apparently require you to never eat out again, never travel again, and definitely never eat popcorn at the movies if you ever want to lose them.

I had finally gotten close to my goal…then life happened.

A movie date 🍿
A trip.
Eating out.

Boom. The number goes back up again.

And I realized how fascinating it is that one tiny number on a scale can influence whether I start my day on the happier side or the unhappier side.

One number.
One thought.
One weigh-in.

And suddenly my emotional state wants to shift.

That’s when I had this thought:

I don’t want to spend my whole life waiting to arrive somewhere before I allow myself to enjoy being alive.

Because if I do that, happiness is always out there somewhere in the future.

Five pounds from now.
After the next goal.
After life finally settles down.

And honestly? That sounds exhausting.

I still have goals.
I still want things.
I still believe in growth and improvement.

But I don’t want my ability to experience joy to depend entirely on reaching those goals first.

Because your life is happening now.

Not someday.
Not after you finally “arrive.”
Not after you become the perfect version of yourself.

Now.

And maybe part of maturity is learning how to stay engaged with life while it’s still imperfect 💛

To laugh.
To connect.
To keep showing up.
To keep growing.
To notice beauty.
To allow joy to travel with you on the path.

Because ordinary Tuesdays matter too.

And maybe happiness was never meant to exist only at destinations.

Maybe some of it was always meant to meet us right here on the path we’re already walking. 🌿