Another day to get it right. Friday June 8, 2018 You set your clock to get you up two or three hours before you need to go somewhere special. Yet when the Sabbath comes, you have trouble getting to a house of worship on time. May you be blessed to find your faith community and show up regularly. Thanking God in the presence of others is heaven on
earth.
Long Weekend Read + Quiz: How Happy Are You? |
Professor Laurie Santos didn’t set out to create the most popular course in the history of Yale University and the most talked-about college course in America. She just wanted her students to be happy. And they certainly look happy as they file into a church — a literal church, Battell Chapel, that’s been
converted to a lecture hall — on the Yale campus on a sunny April afternoon, lugging backpacks and chatting before taking their seats in the pews. They’ve just returned from a two-week spring break. The weather outside is gorgeous. Professor Santos is playing her pre-class get-pumped playlist featuring the Black-Eyed Peas’ “I Gotta Feeling,” And, let’s not forget, all of these students are currently going to Yale. What’s not to be happy about?
Quite a bit, it turns out. The very fact that
Santos’s new course, PSYC 157: Psychology and the Good Life, is so wildly popular, with over 1,200 enrolled students, suggests that she’s on to something when she tells me one day, pre-lecture, “College students are much more overwhelmed, much more stressed, much more anxious, and much more depressed than they’ve ever been. I think we really have a crisis writ large at colleges in how students are doing in terms of self-care and mental health.” Then she adds, “Sadly, I don’t think it’s just in
colleges.” Santos is right on both counts. College students aren’t happy, and neither is anyone else. According to a recent survey by the American College Health Association, 52 percent of students reported feeling hopeless, while 39 percent suffered from such severe depression that they had found it difficult to function at some point during the previous year. At the University of Pennsylvania, there’s even a slang term for the grim mask of discontent that accompanies this
condition: “Penn Face.” We could go further and diagnose a national case of “USA Face,” given that America recently ranked 18th in the U.N.’s “World Happiness Report,” trailing such national bastions of well-being as Finland (No. 1)... READ MORE + TAKE QUIZ
If my kindness is seen as weakness I will be kind anyways. If my help should go unnoticed, I will be helpful anyways. When people forget about the good I do today, I will be good anyways. I will always remember, it's not between me and them, it's between me and my God. |
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My dog is extremely sick he is losing a lot of weight and I’m so scared but I know that with your prayers Blue, the dogs name, will get well and better! I believe in Jesus’ miracles. Blue was taken to the vet and he has some strange cancer. This is making me cry! Please pray for Blue’s recovery. Thank you! - Annette C. |
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