The Easy Road to Happiness | Historical Books | 1 Samuel 2:22-36

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🗓️ 1 April 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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What are you doing to give one person true happiness? Where does spiritual growth start? How can we be happier? In today's episode, Tanya looks at 1 Samuel 2:22-36, reminding us that true happiness comes from praising God. If you're listening on Spotify, comment below one takeaway from today's episode! Read the Bible with us in 2025! This year, we’re exploring the Historical Books—Joshua, Judges, 1 & 2 Samuel, and 1 & 2 Kings. Download your reading plan now. Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now. Like this content? Make sure to leave us a rating and share it so that others can find it, too. Use #asktmbt to connect with us, ask questions, and suggest topics. We'd love to hear from you! To learn more, visit our website and follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter @TenMinuteBibleTalks. Don't forget to subscribe to the TMBT Newsletter here. Passages: 1 Samuel 2:22-36

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0:00.0	Welcome to 10-minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life.
0:09.3	In the time it takes to get to work.
0:10.9	I'm Tanya Wilmuth.
0:13.1	I think it's so interesting to study people and what makes them happy.
0:17.9	I'll just tell you a few of the things that make me just surface level happy.
0:21.7	One of them is seeing my golden retriever boon run down the driveway and his little booty
0:27.0	come up higher than his head because he's so excited to be outside. Another one is really
0:32.5	melty, fresh mozzarella on a pizza. And also seeing my kids walk through the front door so that we can
0:41.2	have dinner together. Those are just off the surface things that make me really, really happy.
0:46.4	But on a deeper level, I wonder what truly makes you happy? What truly makes people happy?
0:53.3	According to a Harvard study of adult development,
0:56.0	one of the greatest predictors of happiness is close relationships, followed by something very
1:02.9	closely related, meaningful engagement. So in other words, Harvard says that living among others
1:09.2	and living for others is what truly makes us happy.
1:13.8	Pablo Picasso would echo this.
1:16.1	He once said, the meaning of life is to find your gift, but the purpose of life is to give it away.
1:21.2	If we believe that we're truly happy when we find our purpose in life, then we can agree with Picasso.
1:27.0	That using our lives to impact
1:29.5	others will bring us great joy. So my husband, Eric, meets with a group of guys on Thursday
1:35.6	mornings, and I truly have no idea what happens there. Sometimes I see him frantically writing in his
1:41.1	Bible study notebook the night before, but other than that, it's a mystery,
1:44.3	like a modern day sandlot. But I can tell you whatever happens there is encouraging, challenging,
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