Happiness & Relationships

Happiness is not dependent on happenings, but on relationship in the happenings. My father taught me this when I was just a child. He often told me of the early days of his marriage. He had opened a small jewelry store in a narrow house in the heart of the Jewish section of Amsterdam. Poor Mother! She had dreamed of a home with a little garden. She loved beautiful things and spacious views. "I love to see the sky," she often said. Instead, she found herself on a narrow street, in an old house - the kind with only a single room on each story - with worn-out furniture which they had inherited from Grandmother. Yet they were both happy, not because of the circumstances but because of the relationship in the circumstances. - Corrie ten Boom