What makes you happy? Every year I take a trip with my son Victor to the beach. We go to the Florida Gulf Coast. Our specific destination is the Palmetto Inn and Suites in Panama City Beach. It has become our favorite destination after visiting many places. Panama City Beach or PCB has beautiful white sand beaches, and the emerald water is striking. We always drive to the beach and it is a long drive. We stop in Northern Alabama on the way down and see the NASA Rocket at the welcome center rest stop on I-65. After about 9 hours of interstate, we hit US 331 South and drive 3 more hours south to the coast. About an hour from our destination, we drive over a long bridge and we see open water for the first time and not long after that we reach the ocean. It is breathtaking when we first see the ocean. We are soon in our room on the beach with a balcony overlooking the Gulf of Mexico. We go fishing, walk on the beach, swim in the ocean, play golf and drive go karts. It is FUN and we are happy.
What makes us happy during our vacation at the beach? To me it is being in the beauty of God’s creation and the time we spend together, focused on each other. I leave you with Psalm 37:4-9 (ESV) and desire you to be truly happy.
4 Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.
5 Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him, and he will act.
6 He will bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your justice as the noonday.
7 Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him; fret not yourself over the one who prospers in his way, over the man who carries out evil devices!
8 Refrain from anger, and forsake wrath! Fret not yourself; it tends only to evil.
9 For the evildoers shall be cut off, but those who wait for the Lord shall inherit the land.
