What makes you happy?
There's a piece on the BBC website about happiness, asking the question: what makes you happy? Well, here are some of mine.
- Sitting on top of Glyder Fach (a Welsh mountain) facing into the wind.
- Getting a broken model railway engine working again.
- Making part of an engine out of plastic, showing it to my son (nearly 4), and he says, "that's brilliant!"
- Finally being able to open the back door without it sticking, after I've followed my wife's instructions and filed off the bumpy bit at the bottom.
- Fixing a particularly knotty bug at work.
- Being there, and being able to offer encouragement, when my two boys were born.
- Chelsea winning the league by beating Manchester United 3-0.
- Eating pickled chillis.
- Listening to "Here comes the sun" while driving in the dark to my mum's, with my boy asleep in the car seat next to me.
- My wedding day - having all the people who were important to me in the same place at the same time.
- Watching election night 1997 with my dad. (So much has changed since then!)
- Sitting on a beach in the sun, watching the waves go in and out.
- The scent of lilac blossom.
- Playing my guitar.
- Playing my guitar at church, looking at the congregation, and seeing that they're all totally lost in worship, and I've helped them to get there.
- Being allowed to go to sleep in the afternoon.
- The story of the Prodigal Son (Luke 15), especially: "But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him". That's me, that is.
Go on, draw up your own list. Put it in a reply, or (better) post it on your own blog and link to it in a comment.
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