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\"05-21-16<\/a><\/p>\n

Me:\u00a0 Howdy!\u00a0 Prodigal!<\/p>\n

Prodigal:\u00a0 How are you?<\/p>\n

Me:\u00a0 Just enjoying peace at this moment.<\/p>\n

Prodigal:\u00a0 I am a little down.<\/p>\n

Me:\u00a0 I can share with you ways to increase unhappiness or maybe you can just stay away from these.<\/p>\n

Prodigal:\u00a0 Well, it would not hurt to listen.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

David Jeremiah shares this in his book Turning Toward Joy<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

If you are looking for a new way to be unhappy, perhaps one or two of these ideas will motivate you to greater depths of despair:<\/strong><\/p>\n

    \n
  1. \u00a0Make little things bother you; don’t just let them, MAKE them.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  2. Lose your perspective of things, and keep it lost.\u00a0 Don’t put first things first.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  3. Get yourself a good worry–one about which you cannot do anything but worry.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  4. Be a perfectionist:\u00a0 Condemn yourself and others for not achieving perfection.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  5. Be right, always right, perfectly right all the time.\u00a0 Be\u00a0 the only one who is right and be rigid about your rightness.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  6. Don’t trust or believe people, or accept them at anything but their worst and weakest.\u00a0 Be suspicious.\u00a0 Impute ulterior motives to them.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  7. Always compare yourself unfavorably to others, which is the guarantee of instant misery.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  8. Take personally, with a chip on your shoulder, everything that happens to you that you don’t like.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  9. Don’t give yourself wholeheartedly or enthusiastically to anyone or to anything.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  10. Make unhappiness the aim of your life, instead of bracing for life’s barbs through a “bitter with the sweet” philosophy.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Now if you have done all 10 of these before lunch then I say you have figure out the secret to unhappiness my friend.\u00a0 The great thing though about follow our Lord Jesus Christ is that no matter if we have followed this list everyday for the past 30 years at any time God can change us and show us a way to have joy.\u00a0 We can rejoice in knowing that in our stumbling and failings of imperfections God never says we have to stay there.<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    Hebrews 10:25<\/p>\n

    Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    Jennifer Van Allen<\/p>\n

    www.theprodigalpig.com<\/p>\n

    www.faithincounseling.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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