Happiness and enjoying all the good things God wants us to enjoy are really in our hands. Sometimes we can read the Gospel, listen to it and think it’s all just too hard and completely beyond us- perfection is for the birds. If we think that we’ve not heard the Gospel. It is for us, we can with God’s help make it happen - gently and slowly if we can just be patient. Be merciful, loving, sensitive and attentive which are hard enough to be. But the reward of even trying to be them ensures we are rewarded mercy, love, sensitivity and attentiveness from God and others.