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Recipe For Happiness

By: Joseph J. Mazzella

My Dad has sent over some of his delicious homemade
spaghetti sauce for our dinner tonight. It is such a joy to
the taste buds. He lets it slow cook for hours and always
adds the perfect amount of garlic to heighten the flavor.
You feel better just for eating it. It is for me the best
tasting sauce in the whole world. It is the same sauce
that my Grandma and Mom made every Sunday when
I was growing up. It will always be for me a recipe of pure
delight.

We all have recipes in our lives. We have recipes for great
food. We have recipes for loving relationships. We even
have recipes for success. The one recipe I think that we
are all searching for, however, is the recipe for happiness.
We all want to be happy and we all want some secret
recipe that will bring that happiness into our lives.

The recipe for happiness, though, isn't the same for everyone.
Each one of us is a unique individual. Things that would add
to the happiness of one of us would only add to the misery
of another. The truth is that each of us has to create our
own recipe for happiness. Each one of us has to make our
own dinner of joy and love.

Just remember that although each person has a different
recipe for happiness the ingredients always remain the
same. You have to take a cup of what you think, stir in
a few ounces of what you feel, and sprinkle generously
with what you do. If what you think is positive, what you
feel is joyous, and what you do shows love then you will
always create a glorious dinner of delight and happiness
for yourself and others. God has given each of us the
ability to be the great chefs of our own lives. It is up
to us, however, to create the recipes, do the cooking,
and share the meal.