I Don't Want To Be Happy!

O Lord, everything in this world
tells us to seek happiness:
Seek it in what we have,
Seek it in what we do,
Use others to our own happy ends,
Find your happy place.

Happiness is not a destination.
Happiness is a drug.
It is frantically bought and sold daily.
It is a temporary fix for a permanent problem.
Happiness rises and falls with the circumstances.

Lord, I don't want to be happy.
I want to be joyful.
You are the source of joy.
You are joy.
Only relationship with you brings joy.
May your Spirit well up within me.
May your joy overflow from your presence within.
I choose Joy.