Do you ever ever choose a word for the year? If not you should try it. I do and the reason I choose one is so that I can take the whole year to learn it and live it and receive it and understand it.

So my word for 2018 was happy.

And that year, my happy year?

I broke my finger, I got vertigo, our kitchen flooded and my hero dad passed away and went to heaven and that was all before August

Those aren't exactly what I would call ingredients for happiness are they but even within the small annoyances

and in the midst of the big sorrow I still have learned a little bit about what it means to truly be happy.

So today we're going to break it down and I'm going to give you three ingredients

to be happy even when you don't feel it. So get ready for a surge of hope and a smile on

your face. Let's go.

Welcome to the 413 podcast where practical encouragement and biblical

wisdom set you up to live the I-Can life because you can do all things through Christ who strengthens you. Now here

she is she's blessed and coffee obsessed. Jennifer Rothschild.

Hey there, I'm Jennifer and I'm just here to help you be and do more than you even feel capable

of by living this I can life of Philippians 413.

I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me and that includes

truly being happy even when you don't feel it. You are going to love this episode today.

Casey, you heard me say that I have a word of the year,

happy, obviously. Do you ever do a word of the year?

I, yes, I do. Last year my word for the year was simply victory. Victory.

Victory.

Victory. I wanted to see victory.

And did you?

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