I love this phrase. Utter amazement. When you are so fascinated by something that you can’t speak, your heart skips a beat and (in my case) you’re in a split second of ultimate happiness. It happens to me. Not every day. I can explain.
Every day is new.. But that doesn’t mean every day is good. God makes them, but we can seriously spoil them if we don’t start off the day with Him. Sometimes I feel really bad though.. And if I don’t take time to relax in some sort of way I’ll end up in the night missing my man and being all cranky and lonely hidden in my room.
So… in the situations I am not.. I take time for something else.. I take a break.. Sometimes pretty short.. I have these little moments that my thoughts just get the chance to shut down from school and all the business I am in for a minute … And then it happens..
Whether I like it or not.. Whether I look out of the window, walk outside, sit at the piano or with a guitar, whether I look at a video, movie, or listen to music, there is this moment when I finally am stunned. That’s what I call a wow-moment. Like this week I took a walk with my mom outside after dinner, around 8 pm, and I see the dark sky, the area with lanterns and carlights and all these colors.. White, orange, yellow… in contrast to the dark dark-blue sky. And I am like: Wow.
That happened to me several times.. Or when I am ready to get to the dinner table and I look at the sky and I see the colors of it when the sun goes under.. I even had it in the garden in front of my house where I could see this big orange circle through the glass of my patio. The sun. I was like.. wow.
But I also have it when I am having an inspiration. I had it whenever I was at the piano just jammin’ and then suddenly this melody or lyric pops into my head.. And yeah, that makes me stand amazed as well. I always thank God for these moments. They make my day, they make me happy. They make me realize how valuable everything, and especially life is. I used to have this time when I doubted whether God spoke to me or anything, I have learned how He speaks. In several ways. And one of them is always through these little moments. Nature is always a major factor in them..
To come back to the aspect of happiness, many people chase happiness, as if it’s something they have to work for to gain, something they think they can find through having all the best things in the world, being in the best mental, physical or situational state. But it’s not like that. Happiness is something you gain from not overlooking the little things in life. Looking at little children makes me happy. Music makes me happy. Love makes me happy. People or interaction makes me happy. Observations make me happy. Nature makes me happy. And in the end: God does.
I have a few scriptures I’d like to share with you. Isaiah 45:3 for example.
“I will give you hidden treasures, riches stored in secret places,
so that you may know that I am the LORD, the God of Israel, who summons you by name.”
Another one is Ecclesiastes 5:18-20
“This is what I have observed to be good: that it is appropriate for a person to eat, to drink and to find satisfaction in their toilsome labor under the sun during the few days of life God has given them—for this is their lot. Moreover, when God gives someone wealth and possessions, and the ability to enjoy them, to accept their lot and be happy in their toil—this is a gift of God. They seldom reflect on the days of their life, because God keeps them occupied with gladness of heart.”
This scripture tells me a lot. First, I’d like to say that I think the wealth and possessions aren’t earthly possessions. I think they do make you happy, but in this scripture I can see these wealth and possessions as spiritual. Because, the Bible tells us not to gather our possessions on earth, they won’t mean anything to us in heaven. But, moments like these, and moments of love and all the happiness we’ve felt, will make us satisfied with any situation that we’re in, they will make us the people we are, they’ll define the way we live, they define our relationship with God. They will allow us and help us to accept the burdens we carry, they’ll help us to make sure we can actually carry them. I think that I can also add to this that this is a way that ‘Jesus carries our burdens’. “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.”, Matthew 11:28. God will give us these moments in order to be able to carry even more of our burdens, to make our load even lighter. Does that make any sense?
In this scripture I can see for myself why God gives you (and me) these wow-moments. They make me thankful, they make me thank God. The ultimate happiness and meaning of these observations I make come from Him. As said in this scripture, God gives you these little secret treasures, and it makes Him known to us. It makes me wanna thank Him. I don’t say ‘Oh, that’s such a coincidence’, the phrase that usually leaves my mouth is ‘Oh God, this is beautiful’ (and not as a cuss, God is ADRESSED to God). That’s how I know He gives these treasures to me. And that’s how I know how amazing and awesome and beautiful He is. He made all this. He makes him known to me through these moments. God calls us through these moments, He pulls me even closer to His heart and make my importance to Him even more clear to me, He lets me know how valuable I am. These moments in life bring me to my knees. They make me fall in love with Jesus even more and more. He is such a romantic.
Look at it this way: Don’t make it a quest for feeling the best, don’t think too big. You may always dream, but don’t outstretch yourself in a situation you can’t. I am not in the best circumstances right now. I don’t think anyone is, everyone carries their cross, right? God says that we have to be content with what we have in order to get better. So, be happy with the small things, and if you get bigger things, be even more thankful and happy. Just make sure you don’t overlook the small. Don’t forget how much you have, don’t forget all the treasures that you have already been given. Overthink for yourself what you can be happy and thankful for. Make sure you look at things positive and take time to take a break from all the daily things you do. Open yourself up for simplicity. God gives wow-moments to you to let you know that He wants you to be happy and enjoy His creation in your biggest mess.
Here are some awesome scriptures to end this post with (from WisdomQuotes).
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No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change. – Barbera de Angelis
There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state to another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life. – Alexandre Dumas
Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy — because we will always want to have something else or something more. - David Steindl-Rast
The basic thing is that everyone wants happiness, no one wants suffering. And happiness mainly comes from our own attitude, rather than from external factors. If your own mental attitude is correct, even if you remain in a hostile atmosphere, you feel happy. - Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? - Albert Camus
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude. - Denis Waitley
If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator. - W. Beran Wolfe
The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase, if you pursue happiness you’ll never find it. – C.P. Snow
If only we’d stop trying to be happy we’d have a pretty good time. – Edith Warton
Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. - Nathaniel Hawthorne
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And that’s probably it for today.

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