Insight from the teacher ...

Here it the article from Mrs. Cynthia Thwin, Sunday School Director, currently teaching 5&6 grade class in Sunday School at Oakland Burmese Mission Baptist Church. Her inspiration comes from the recent trip to New York with her family. She also add the personal note from Mr. Alphonse Gabriel, 80 years old retired preacher , uncle of her husband.

(At the street of Time Squre with son, Aaron & husband, Paul Thwin)

HAPPINESS

So many people think they would be happy if only life's circumstances were changed; if they had a different job, if they had never married or had married some one else, if they had gotten married, if they had had different parents or education, if they were in a different religious community or seminary, if they lived elsewhere, had more money-or more possessions, etc.

But, the secret of happiness, like the kingdom of God, is within you. Take life the way God has given it to you, put a frame around it, and within that frame make your own happiness.

So many people in life strive for one luxury after another, as if they could buy happiness. If and when you can say to yourself that there is really no material thing that you want or need, then you are close to wisdom and happiness.

The unhappy king was told that he would find happiness by wearing the shirt of the poorest man in his kingdom, and discovered that the poorest man was cheerful and had no shirt at all.