How Happy Are You?

“Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice.” Phil. 4:4

“This is what makes her happy,” a husband told me about his wife one day referring to a big volunteer endeavor she had taken on that seemed to have become all-consuming and per her husband had helped her deal with an enormous personal challenge. “And our happiness is what matters, isn’t it?” he essentially said.

Well. Um. Hmm. I started to agree with him because I knew it would make him happy. No pun intended. Clearly he wante...