The Difference Between Happiness and Joy | According to God

Let me tell you something — I spent YEARS chasing happiness. Right? Thinking if I got the right job, the right situation, the right man, the right bank account... then I'd finally arrive. But here's the thing nobody told me: happiness and happenstance? Same root word. Wait. What? Yeah. The thing you've been exhausting yourself trying to catch? It's tied to circumstances. To what's happening. And circumstances? They shift. Every. Single. Time. So anyway — I'm sitting there, tired. Like, tired tired. And the Lord hit me with something: joy is different. Joy doesn't care what's happening. Joy sits down in the middle of the chaos and says, "I'm still here." Because joy is built on something that doesn't move — the fact that God knows your name. That He loves you. That He is WITH you right now. That has never changed and it never will. The world is out here chasing happy and running on empty. But the Christian woman who actually gets this? She's dangerous in the best way. But now that I'm saying this out loud... are you chasing happy or are you anchored in joy? Because one will wear you out, and the other? The other will carry you. 🔗 Subscribe: HEY PATRICE! #HeyPatrice #ChristianJoy #IdentityInChrist #WomenOver40 #FaithNotFeelings #RatRaceRecovery