I heard someone talking about the psychology of happiness. He said that a researcher figured out that sixty to eighty percent of a person’s happiness has to do with genetics and the rest is up to the person. In other words, about sixty percent of a person’s happiness is locked into your genetics and the other forty percent is up to the person’s attitude.
It made me think about how every day I write my God’s peace reside in all of our hearts. I don’t believe that anything can be explained away by science. God can always make the impossible possible and I believe I am living proof of that idea.
On my father’s side, my family, everyone was nice, but I wouldn’t say anyone was extremely happy. In fact, the strong motivation in that side of the family was don’t express emotion even if it was happiness.
On my mother’s side, my family was very dysfunctional and I can’t imagine describing anyone as being happy. The strong motivation in that side of the family was survival.
I should have been doomed from the beginning. However, when I see pictures of myself as a baby, I was incredibly happy and smiling. It wasn’t until the abuse started that I changed. The amazing thing is that even despite the abuse and pain, I still smile all the time.
I try to find happiness and thankfulness for everything in my life now more than ever. If the scientist were right, I should be a very unhappy person. Yet, I have God in my heart. He changes everything. I’m not happy all the time. I have my bad days and my struggles. However, I am at peace most of the time. I know He love me and He is in my heart wherever I go. That peace in my heart beats all those scientific studies about happiness.
My faith saved me. May God’s peace reside in all of our hearts.
