How to Find Happiness by Helen Steiner Rice

Happiness is something you create in your mind;
Not something you search forbut can't seem to find;
Not something that's purchased with silver or gold;
Not something that force can capture and hold.

It's just waking up and beginning each day;
By counting your blessing and kneeling to pray;
It's giving up thoughts that breed discontent;
And accepting what comes as a gift heaven-sent.

It's giving up and wishing for things you have not;
And making the best of whatever you've got;
Its knowing that life is determined and planned;
And God's holds the world in the palm of HIS hand.

And its by completing that God gives you to do;
That you find contentment and happiness too.