There is one very important point about being happy. You
must sincerely desire to be happy. There are people who have
been depressed, dejected, and unhappy so long that were they
suddenly made happy by some wonderful, good, joyous news,
they would actually be like the woman who said to me, “It is
happy!” They have been so accustomed to the wrong to be so
old mental patterns that they do not feel at home being happy!
They long for the former, depressed, unhappy state.
I knew a woman in England who had rheumatism for
many years. She would pat herself on the knee and say, “My heumatism is bad today I cannot go out. My rheumatism keeps
are miserable.” This dear elderly lady got a lot of attention
from her son, daughter, and the neighbors. She really wanted
let theumatism. She enjoyed her “misery” as she called it. This
woman did not really want to be happy. I suggested a curative
procedure to her. I wrote down some biblical verses and told
her that if she gave attention to these truths, her mental attitude
would undoubtedly change and would result in her faith and
confidence in being restored to health. She was not interested.
There seems to be a peculiar, mental, morbid streak in many
people, whereby they seem to enjoy being miserable and sad.