Maybe happiness is meant to be the exception rather the rule.  If you're happy too much of the time, you might get too comfortable - too complacent - with the way things are and not want to change anything.  For example, if people had been happy having to light their homes with candles, we wouldn't have needed Thomas Edison to come along and invent the electric light bulb.  If in the Old West, people had been happy with the Pony Express as the major communication link between east and west, we wouldn't have needed the telegraph, telephone, and eventual global telecommunication networks.  If Americans had been happy using horses to plow their fields nad take them into town, Henry Ford would never have brought us tractors and automobiles.

    This could explain why people tend to be happier as they grow older.  Maybe it makes sense that young people are more frustrated, angrier, and more restless about life - these feelings provide the energy necessary to make things happen in terms of productivity, entrepreneurship, and invention.

    What I'm suggesting is that perhaps happiness is wasted on young and is emotion better suited to people in the other parts of life.  Why else would 38% of people between the ages of 68 and 77 report being "very happy" as compared to only 28% of those between 18 & 27?

    Look on the bright side: If you're under age 40, you have something to look forward to - a happier time of life.  If you're over 40, good news: You're already well on your way to compounding a life of happiness!

I recently had a pastor from Florida contact me about helping him with a webpage and he expressed his fears because of how much he had heard a website cost.  I put his mind to ease and told him that is "old-school" and that the need for a big, expensive website is a thing of the past.  I told him its about relationships today!

Our Christian walk, evangelism and church growth now is based on relationships!  Oh, but that is what they have always been based on, well supposed to have been based on!  It is about reaching people in our areas and telling them about the love, power and grace of Jesus Christ!

Pastors, church leaders listen up!  Christian websites should be at the top of every Google search there is without you even trying!  Why?  Because the new ways of ranking pages is now based upon content! It is based on what you write and how often you write it!  I have never met one pastor that didn't enjoy speaking!  And because of that you should write everyday and when you do your page will climb on the Google ranking! Now you have to enjoy writing what your heart is speaking and putting that in the form of a blog!

Google makes it easy!  And FREE!  Your people obviously want to hear your heart so let them!  Church growth is about the relationships that you grow.  Today's technology gets your voice to those people that you can help and that can help grow your church.  Encourage them and help them build their personal lives! 

Now granted there are things to help your blog get  to the top, but that is what I am here for!  I want to remind you there is no reason you cannot have a presence on the web and a professional one at that!  You may not have a site like www.christianitytoday.com or www.christianpost.com or www.leadershipjournal.net but do you should focus on your demographic area anyway and not the world.  The world isn't coming to your church every Sunday!  My ministry is free for anyone so please feel free to contact me!