State Of Happiness

Happiness, as I see it, is the state of the mind of one person, where he or she comes to the realization of being a creation of God, one who loves him or her. This happiness is just a temporary state that man experience within a certain phase of time in his earthly journey. This journey is made, in his hope for eternal happiness when he comes face to face with the Heavenly Father and be united with Him.

I was first introduced to happiness as being a state of consciousness in my elementary years, I believe, in the year before 1958, if my memory serves me right. I was very lucky to have been a student of a Filipino teacher that was teaching English in my school. She inculcated in her students love of books. I got access to the books she recommended from the school library. One of the books she recommended was about the character Pollyiana. I cannot remember the exact spelling but I failed to find in the internet the original version of the book. It was about a "looking-glass", which her grandfather gave to her. It made her possible to have a colorful and cheerful view of things around.

This reminds me of the term "euphoria" that I encountered in my later studies. The internet refers to it as a term taught by New Latin Greek describing "a feeling of great happiness or well-being." Modern medicine, and technology has it's own definition and attainment of happiness.

The word "Limbo" was taught before in books of Catholic Cathecism which I was able to acquire from a local bookstore during the late 1980's. Limbo is a place, in the borderline of heaven and hell, according to the book. It taught of a place or "the abode of the unbaptized but innocent or righteous souls as those of infants or virtuous souls who lived before the coming of Christ. Those souls in Limbo are in a state of happiness but they don't see God.

But Pope Benedict XVI declared at the onset of his reign as the leader of the Roman Catholic Church that there is no such place as Limbo. I believe in the infallibility of the Pope. This I believe he declared to embrace ecunemism, which through the agreement of different creeds was agreed on centuries ago. This coming of all nations together, respecting each other's belief without preempting anyone from the promise of God and the happiness and peace that it offers.
Limbo I think is within ourselves, a prison in our mind, through unbelief of possible happiness and salvation for others, especially sinners, including ourselves. We will only be released from this prison, to come face to face with the Father, and be able to look into His eyes if we heed the call of resurrection from the grave of our sin. Then we will be able to live the fullness of life through his light.