Today is Friday, December 30th, 2022.

I'm Chris Elkins with the Denison Forum and welcome to the Daily Article podcast.

Today's article is written by Dr. Jim Denison, co-founder and CEO of Denison Forum.

Pele, called the Global Face of Soccer by the New York Times, has died after a battle with

cancer. After canceling more than 2,300 of its flights yesterday, Southwest Airlines plans to return

to normal operations today with minimal disruptions. As Ukrainians face freezing winter temperatures,

Russia has launched what appears to be one of its largest

strikes to date on their energy infrastructure. Police in Buffalo, New York, arrested 10 people

for looting amid the deadly winter storm that buried much of western New York. And 85% of rural

land in California is now at high or very high risk for wildfires,

according to a new analysis. Why did I begin today's daily article with these stories? I never

watched Pele play soccer. I have no current plans to fly on Southwest Airlines, nor do I live in

Ukraine, Western New York,

or rural California. But you and I were made by God as empathetic communal beings, as stated

in Genesis 218, it is not good that man should be alone. The happiness or pain of some is

experienced as happiness or pain by the rest of us.

The same is true of experiences long past. Millions will sing Ald Langsign tomorrow evening with

its question, should old acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind. And we seek happiness

not just in the present and from the past,

but for the future, we will wish each other a happy New Year all the while, wishing we could

do more than wish for such happiness. It turns out we can, but only if we look in the right place.

According to an American Psychological Association survey,

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