There is not in the world anyone who does not want a life of happiness. We dream and hope that our days are of intense and full joy.

We yearn that the smile comes easy, that the days are mild and that our walk is of fortune.

This is only natural. We are beings doomed to happiness and this is the felling that is in the soul the deepest meanings.

However, in the pursuit of happiness, we imagine that we have to get it at some point, that we will find in at some moment, that we will achieve it in a given day.

We remember the sonnet by the poet Vicente de Carvalho which says that happiness is a tree of golden apples, but that we do not achieve, because it is always where we put it and we never put it where we are.

To imagine the happiness as a goal to reach we forget that, in truth, happiness is the way to draw, it is the trail to go, it is the history to build.

When we imagine that the happiness will come one day, we lose ourselves in the days and do not see the happiness that comes to us.

Or will not it be happiness the possibility to be faced with a sunset coloring a sky of a red that a short while ago was deep blue? There are many who would want to see a sunset...

How much happiness can exist to heat the first words of a child, a declaration of love for those who we want well, or even, the whistling of the wind rattle soft the leaves of the trees? There are many who hear nothing, nor hear or perceive...

How happy we are to be able to think, create, dream and, in the blink of an eye, travel around the world and in space, driven by imagination, guided by the mind! There are many who remain jailers of themselves in their mental disorders, emotional imbalances…

We worry so much about seeking happiness, that we forget that we already have plenty of reasons to be happy.

And, actually, we are not aware that happiness is not in the reach, but that it lives in the walk itself.

 To be happy is to have the look of gratitude toward life, of understanding its purpose, the perception that it always generous to each one of us.

To be happy is not to deny that in life there will be conflicts, struggles and daily challenges. After all, these are components of our life and, of course, can bring difficulties and disappointments.

However, being happy is also realizing that the conflicts produce maturation, that the struggles make us stronger and offer us learning.

Thus, in no way it is worth just waiting for the day that our happiness will be complete.

Being happy is an appointment for today, that begins by looking at the things of the world, goes by the heart in form of recognition by the gifts that come, completes itself in gratitude, offering life what it gives us in abundance.

Spiritist Moment Team.
December 15.2014.