How Can Anyone Be Happy?

How can anyone be happy,
When every day human souls are being brutally killed?
When sad children end their lives before they are fulfilled?

How can anyone be happy,
When so many hungry souls sleep under cardboard?
When their political leaders lie, cheat and defraud?

How can anyone be happy,
When sectarian hypocrites despoil and stumble?
And nations of the world gather for their last 'rumble'?

How can anyone be happy,
When the love of mankind has grown so cold?
(1)
When husbands and wives part before they are old?

How can anyone be happy,
When the innocence of children is so corrupted?
Stealing for drugs, their desire for life disrupted?

How can anyone be happy,
When scientists plan human clones without parents or love?
(2)
When evil permeates society, and there is wrath from above?

How can anyone be happy,
When Jews kill for their land, but still talk of peace?
And tell of a holocaust but suppress truth with ease?

How can anyone be happy,
When God pours out His wrath
"upon the air"?
(3)
When the Godless run from "a lion" to meet up with "a bear". (4)

But: "Happy are those conscious of their spiritual need,
since the Kingdom of the heavens belongs to them.
Happy are those who mourn, since they will be comforted.
Happy are the mild-tempered ones, since they will inherit the earth.
Happy are those hungering and thirsting for righteousness,
since they will be filled.
Happy are the merciful, since they will be shown mercy.
Happy are the pure in heart, since they will see God.
Happy are the peaceable, since they will be called 'sons of God.'
Happy are those who have been persecuted for righteousness' sake,
since the Kingdom of the heavens belongs to them.
Happy are you when people reproach you and persecute you
and lyingly say every sort of wicked thing against you for my sake.
Rejoice and leap for joy, since your reward is great in the heavens;
for in that way they persecuted the prophets prior to you."
(5)

                                                                                         5/3/02.

 


SOURCES.
 
  (1) Matt 24:12 NWT.
 
(2) 2 Esdras 5:8,9 NEB.
 
(3) Rev 16:17.
 
  (4) Amos 5:18,19.
 

 

(5) Matt 5:3-12 NWT.
 

 

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