internship: happiness

Started my internship at ihop.
AMEN.

and I have some thoughts about the nature of happiness. I have always heard that there is a difference between joy and happiness. That happiness is dependent on your circumstances and therefore fleeting and capricious. Well, being in the prayer room so far, the one over-riding emotion or expression in my heart has been happiness, pure, absurdly excited happiness. Now I'm not claiming to have a deep biblical understanding of either words, joy or happiness (although i need one) but i'm just saying that if what we have been told about happiness is true, there is no reason for us as the people of God to ever cease being happy.
Truly, have we heard the promises of God? Do we know what it means to be grafted into His family? There is an deep and abiding reality in the kingdom of God that nothing could ever give us a reason to stop being happy that is stronger than the reasons that we have to be happy.

the LORD takes pleasure in us. Really, really, really. He likes us, He loves us, He is pleased with us. So we make God happy, we have forever won Him simply by the "yes" in our hearts, and NOTHING in heaven or earth can separate us from His love.

What can man do to me?