“The point of our lives is not to get smart or to get rich or even to get happy. The point is to discover God’s purposes for us and to make them our own.”
― Cornelius Plantinga Jr., Not the Way It’s Supposed to Be : A Breviary of Sin

The American dream is to find happiness. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are scrawled across our history books–but let’s be honest: the only real thing most people care about is pursuing happiness. Whatever that is.

But what if there was more to life than this American dream? What if the happiest thing of all didn’t seem all that happy at the time? What if life’s meaning went beyond pursuing happiness? What if it were to find ultimate fulfillment in seeing God’s glory? Participating in His glorification? In reveling within his infinite creativity? His staggering eternal power? In yielding my personal reasoning, feelings, and desires to His truth, His purpose, His Life?