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Who Are The Happiest People On Earth?
An English newspaper asked its readers this question: “Who are the happiest people on earth?”
These were the four prize-winning answers:
1. A craftsman or artist whistling over a job well done.
2. A little child building sandcastles.
3. A mother, after a busy day, bathing her baby.
4. A doctor who has finished a difficult and dangerous operation and saved a human life.
No millionaires among these, one notices. No kings or tycoons. Wealth and positon, no matter
how the world strives for them are not the things most people in their wisdom consider the essential
quality of happiness.
Happiness today is the elusive quality much searched for and not often enjoyed. However,
Solomon said it long ago: “For a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life. And also that every man
should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labor, it is the gift of God” (Ecclesiastes 3:12-13).
~Ken Dye
House to House; Heart to Heart
Jacksonville church of Christ, Jacksonville, AL
