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Who are you?

Oldest Youngest

Who are you?

Not SoSportsy

Sportsy

Who are you?

Plan Ahead

Last Minute

Who are you?

With Others

BySelf

Who are you?

Who are you?

What is essential is invisible to the eye

Who are you?

Who are you?

Discipleship

godisnowhere

Happiness

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

Helen Keller

Happiness

The essentials to happiness are something to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

William Blake

Happiness

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

Agnes Repplier

Happiness

Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.

Aristotle

Happiness

Happiness is a warm puppy.

Charles Schulz

So, What isHappiness?

• Are you happy?• What makes you happy?• What was your happiest

moment?• How do you recognize

being happy?

• So, What isHappiness?

Theological Equations

• Happiness = Good

Theological Equations

• Happiness = Good• God = Good

Theological Equations

• Happiness = Good• God = Good• Therefore, God and

happiness are connected.

Theological Equations

• Happiness = Good• God = Good• Therefore, God and

happiness are connected.

• God wants us to be happy.

Immanuel Kant

Theological Equations

• Happiness = Good• God = Good• Therefore, God and

happiness are connected.

• God wants us to be happy.

• Be Blessed.

So, What isHappiness?

Be Rich

Blessed are the Poor in Spirit

Blessed are the Poor in Spirit

Be Cool

Blessed are those Who Mourn

Blessed are those Who MournBlessed are those Who Mourn Feel

Be Extreme

Blessed are the Meek

Blessed are the Meek

Where are you at

• With possession obsession?• With dealing with feeling?• What is the center of your universe??

Be Comfortable

Blessed are those who hunger & thirst

Blessed are thosewho hunger and thirst

Be Powerful

Blessed arethe merciful

Blessed arethe merciful.

Multi-Task

Blessed are thepure of heart

Blessed are the pure of heartBlessed are the pure of heart/ focused

Where are you at

• With standing up against wrong?• With stepping down to help another?• With figuring out what’s important??

Be a Winner

Blessed arethe peacemakers

Blessed arethe peacemakers

Don’t be a Loser

Blessed arethose prosecuted

Blessed arethose prosecuted

Get Along

Blessed are youif others reject you

Blessed are youif others reject you

Where are you at

• With disarming your attitude?• With being with those “locked In?”• With taking your best shots against the odds??

LifeIs

Hard

Comfort Food

Comfort Food

Dear young people, the happiness you are seeking, the happiness you have a right to enjoy has a name and a face: It is Jesus of Nazareth, hidden in the Eucharist. Only he gives the fullness of life to humanity!

Happiness

Discipleship