called

most of us, for sure Christians, talk about the mission we have in our lives. Never is that discussed without some statement or rendition about how we are to suffer anything to feed the poor, tend to the sick, shelter the homeless. Mostly, we talk about these aspects of mission as if we know we are to live lives of pain and suffering, facing even torture, ridicule, loss of worldly possessions, bearing our own cross...all in the pattern of Jesus. And we assert that this is God's calling and, because it is God's calling, we are to do it. Yet, God commanded us to be happy, and to Know God. Do we find people in that pursuit? Am I living that life? Will I pursue a life of fullness and complete happiness in God?