If you are looking to increase your happiness and joy, I want to share a book with you…
This book, called The Happiness Dare, has surprised me and actually changed my thinking on some huge topics of my faith. I actually picked this book up EXPECTING to disagree with the premise. Oh how God has such a delightful sense of humor. 🙂
If you’ve always heard the quote “God desires our holiness more than our happiness…” and if you tend to agree with that, you and I are in the same boat. And, surprisingly, this book has changed my opinion on it! I don’t believe that it has to be holy OR happy any longer! There are so many scripture references to the JOY that Jesus had…yet He was perfectly HOLY as well!! Join me as we dare to live the abundant life that God has for us.
Additionally, if, like me, you are prone to seeing the negative in this world…maybe prone to anxiety and depression…I really feel like you will be blessed by this book. Like Ann Voskamp taught me in One Thousand Gifts, the Happiness Dare challenges me to CHOOSE JOY, to appreciate the simple things, to fix my eyes on Jesus. While One Thousand gifts is one of my all time favorite reads, this book is very different. Very different writing styles. Yet, the Happiness Dare is quickly becoming one of my favorite books as well because it is a topic that I need!
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You can go to Jennifer’s website and find out what your HAPPINESS STYLE is! Kind of like personality tests or spiritual gift tests, the author tells us that there are different ways we find happiness! There are 5 happiness styles: The Doer, The Thinker, The Giver, The Relater, The Experiencer.
Head to The Happiness Dare site to take the quiz for yourself!
The reason that I include this book in our series on Cultivating Gratitude is because the author talks a lot about gratitude – naming and writing down our thankful lists, lingering over the goodness in our lives, looking for JOY during our days…
So, this book fits perfectly with CULTIVATING gratitude in our lives!
How can you LINGER over goodness today??
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