So what is a Happiness Engineer?  Well, he is the guy that contacted me about renewing this blog site.  I guess he is called by that title.  Personally, I can’t think of a better addition to my  name or anyone’s name………Barbara Hyland,  “Happiness Engineer!”  Don’t I wish I had the power to grant wishes, make dreams come true, take away sickness and help everyone win the Publisher’s Clearing House prize!  Sorry.  I’m not that person.  Nor are you.

  God did give us a job to do.  We each can be Happiness Engineers.  Not in the aforementioned ways but perhaps in our very own way of bringing a bit of happiness into someone’s life.  How about a smile;  a truly heartfelt response to those who ask for prayer;  a note of cheer on a dreary day; an unannounced phone call just to say hello, “I was thinking of you.” 

God expects his children to be Happiness Engineers.  Life isn’t always happy.  In fact, there is sickness, sadness and grief.  Did you know that 40% of the Psalms are laments.  The writer is complaining to God.

  Psalm 69….”Save  me, O God, for the waters have come up to my  neck,  I sink in deep mire. there is no foothold“…….I have been studying these Psalms of Lament.  The writers are complaining to the “Happiness Engineer.”  Not all is well with them.  they are drowning in a sea of trouble.  Don’t you often feel that way?  In my next blog I will write more fully on some of these Psalms.

  But for now, let us ourselves be the instrument that God uses to help cheer others.  Isn’t that the least we can do in our troubled world?  If not us…..then who?