I had a good belly-laugh yesterday (the best kind🙂)!
My husband went to the office to get our mail and came home with a big box. The office people here write the receiver’s name in BIG LETTERS to make it easier for us old people to see. It eliminates 98% of the confusion.
The other 2% is someone else here at this resort with the same surname as ours, and our mail and packages and their mail and packages have gotten mixed up from time to time. So now the office writes our first AND last names on our packages and does the same on theirs.
The box was big, so ‘Maria Russell’ had been written in real big letters. There was no mistaking who this box was for.
In the corner, where the sender’s name usually is, was printed, “Happiness lies within.”
The message was not lost on me, and it cracked me up! It was as obvious a sign as could ever be, don’t you think? Happiness comes from within one’s own self, not from the outside, materialistic world.
The box’s contents—two dozen luscious, chocolate-covered strawberries will certainly make my palate happy while they last, and I’ll be grateful for each and every one as long as they do. But what I’m going to really remember most about this Valentine’s gift, and be grateful for, is the true message it brought.
Happiness lies within. What makes you happy?
He who heeds the word wisely will find good, and whoever trusts in the Lord, happy is he. ~Proverbs 16:20
