Beautiful feelings are lovely and to be treasured but have we really gone through all the pain and suffering to get to that place where we are at peace and solitude with God. It feels lovely ofcourse to go for a drive along the each in your four wheel drive car, but have you run that beach first on foot. I can tell you what the best feeling is from personal experience, the running is so much more exhilarating than the steering and driving, better for your cardiovascular and cardiorespiratory, your pulse rate is higher and stronger and your mind is full of life giving oxygen from breathing clean air instead of petrochemical carbon polution from your exhaust pipe, from a harder physical endurance and effort and exhileration.

Go for a swim in the surf and clean out your sinuses, breathing and smell the freshness of the sea breeze and salt air and not the inner city green house gases. You will be so much more impressed with the feelinng that you can keep for a long time, really you should do that regularly. Then you might get in your car and drive home after you have enjoyed the beach to your best possible expectations and watch television. No, read a book or your Bible, yes! even write a book if you feel so inclined and inspired. So much better for the mind than the garbage they dish up on the square box or flat screen entertainment systems nowdays. These things will give you a sense of good feelings and accomplishment instead of the short and uninviting feelings of momentary self gratification and the simple pleasure of having everything for yourself right now. It is all really a pyschological thing.

There is no free ride to heaven, there is no fish and chips behind the pearly gates, feeling good about yourself is a hard and well earned endeavour of lasting peace and happiness and not the short term fix of drugsa nd alcohol, really they are self defeting and self destrucive in the end and you can't feel good about that really, not in the true sense of the word of lasting peace and happiness. Quick fixes are negatives and not positives, they are debtramental and not life giving. the only way that you can have peace and happiness is to follow Jesus and tern from you evil ways to a life of everlasting happiness. You will feel good about that even if it hurts a bit it will help you as you work your way to a better way of living and life style. You can feel good about that, success is not an overnight accomplishment, but a dayly persual of endurance to matinan a right and positively motivated and purposefully lead lifestyle. I am reminded of that song that says, hurts so good, come baby so it hurts so good, sometimes life doesn't seem like it should, baby hurts so good.

Really the better choice of songs is a hymn that we all no, Amazing Grace, come to Jesus all who are tired and weary and I will give you rest and you may as well throw peace and happiness into the bargain with that as well. Remeber that we can't do it all on opur own but we need Jesus and the grace of God to take over when we have done all we can on our own back and let God shine the guideing light for a while and give us back His love and security of grace and mercy. We all tend to say if it feels good then do it. Not, if it is not good for our bodies give it back to God to deal with.