You're going to be. Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. As we continue to explore the world of happiness, today I want us to look at

happiness and our faith. I know not everyone who listens to this podcast is a person of faith, but probably a majority of the listeners are,

so if you are, and even if you aren't, I think you'll find this episode applicable to all of us on our journey towards happiness.

Many years ago when I was at university, I got the opportunity to spend the summer in the Middle East.

And after the summer was over, I was getting ready to fly home out of Cairo, Egypt, and my plane was late, very late, extremely late, and 32 hours later after the time it was supposed to leave, it finally took off. I was exhausted, I hadn't slept. They kept telling us that the plane would be leaving any

hour and those hours just kept getting extended.

Well what we learned was, is the plane had had mechanical problems at its previous stop and they had spent all that time fixing

the plane.

As we're taking off, the stewardess gets on the intercom and politely announces, we should be

arriving in Paris in a little over eight hours on

Shahala. Well I'd been in the Middle East for several months so I was pretty familiar

with what that term meant and basically it's translated as God willing.

At that time those words weren't very comforting to me.

I wanted to know that the plane was fixed perfectly and we would be arriving because of the great

mechanics on time and well, not God willing. But in truth, all faiths have this premise that God willing things will turn out a certain way.

And so let's explore that today.

How does God willing have anything to do with our life of happiness?

Like I said, all faiths have this premise that God is basically in control.

He's all powerful, omnipotent, all knowing. He's just a very powerful being.

So they all have a sense of give it to God and let go.

For example, in the Christian edition there's what's called the Lord's

prayer. It's a very famous prayer that Jesus taught his disciples to pray and

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