Happiness Is Not for Sale: Episode 399

Happiness is being sold like a screensaver life: turquoise water, perfect couples, and a checkout button that promises you will finally feel whole. We slow that story down and ask a harder question: what if the chase is the problem, and what if joy was never meant to be purchased in the first place? 

We talk about how social media advertising and comparison quietly build a mindset of lack, where you assume you are failing if you cannot afford the trip, the lifestyle, or the relationship you see online. From there, we pivot into faith and the unseen reality that still holds weight: God as our beginning and our end, and the reminder from Matthew 6:26 that provision is not random. We also name the mental cost of living in constant uncertainty and why confusion is not where God operates. 

Then we connect today’s headlines to everyday choices: food recalls, seedless products, and why so many people feel pushed to take their health back into their own hands. Gardening becomes a real-world example of returning to what is rooted and true, and we reflect on how COVID forced many of us to look inward and rebuild from the inside. If you are tired of tying your happiness to outcomes you cannot control, this conversation points you back to what is constant, steady, and already within you. 

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Transcript

Welcome And Why Happiness Matters

SPEAKER_00 0:00

Welcome back, listeners. I'm Robin Black, and this is It's All About Healing Podcast. This morning I wanted to just come on here and speak about a few things, but I definitely want to start with happiness. Happiness, it seems to be an advertisement. It seems what I keep seeing when I'm scrolling through social media and things, it seems like they're promoting happiness as an advertisement, as something that you can purchase.

Buying Fear Versus Buying Joy

SPEAKER_00 0:31

But we can't purchase happiness the way that we're able to purchase fear, right? You want to be scared, you rent a scary movie, you go see a scary movie, you go to a haunted house. Now they have those theaters where if they're watching Jaws or something, and they have the employees that are under the water pulling people underwater. You know, it's like you're looking for that fear. You're purchasing it. You want to be scared. I want somebody to scare me. And they do the same with happiness.

Vacation Fantasies And Feeling Behind

SPEAKER_00 1:03

I saw these vacations, the vacations that look like screensavers, you know, your bow, your Bali, Indonesia, Greece, and that beautiful blue water, Jamaica, all these beautiful, beautiful places to visit. And they say this is what happiness is. Therefore, some of the people, which a lot of us, we internalize. We internalize our own thoughts. Right? Sometimes we sabotage our own selves because we feel if I don't have that, then that must mean that I don't have happiness. That must mean that because I can't purchase this and go on this vacation or go anywhere, travel anywhere in this world, that means that puts me in the mindset of lack. I'm lacking something. So if I'm lacking something, that means that I'm not really happy.

Faith In The Unseen Provider

SPEAKER_00 1:56

If I don't have the perfect power couple relationship, right, then that means I'm not happy. I just want to be happy. I'll be happier when I have someone to do life with. I'll be happier when I have someone to split the bills with. Right? Whatever your circumstances are, that that doesn't define your happiness. And I believe it's Matthew 6.26, where God says, just as I dress the flowers and feed the birds, I'll do the same for you. Right? Just because God is an unseen reality doesn't mean that it's not there. Because God, He is our beginning and our end. This world puts us in a seen reality, and sometimes the enemy doesn't realize that they contradict themselves.

Food Recalls And Seedless Living

SPEAKER_00 2:48

Here it is, now you see all these food recalls. First, it started with the lettuce, then it was, then it was ginger rail, then it was ginger, then it was cucumbers a while ago, then it was eggs, then it was it just the list goes on, it never stops. And then now you have all these seedless grapes, seedless watermelons, seatless this, seatless, seedless, seatless, all these man-made things. God planted seeds. He planted seeds to grow, even us. We grow. But the one thing that the enemy is promoting, that they don't even realize that they're promoting, that's why you have to focus on how strategic God is. He has a brilliant, brilliant mind. Because he'll use the enemy. A lot of people look at things, they look at this world, they're like, oh, this world is just so bad, it's just so bad. But it's all a part of his plan, his perfect plan. It's meant to scare us. It's meant to be a distraction.

Gardening Mindset And Covid Lessons

SPEAKER_00 3:51

But if anything, it's pushing a lot of people in the in the in the in the mindset of doing their own gardening. It's gonna push them in that direction of I'm just gonna start figuring out how to garden myself and make and and grow my own fruits and vegetables. It's gonna be that much easier to just do it myself. If I got to worry about all these things that make me sick and do this and do that, then I'll figure it out myself. Just like COVID, where COVID had us indoors all the time. People started figuring out new things, how to do new things, a different way of thinking.

Happiness Within And Spiritual Peace

SPEAKER_00 4:29

We have to focus internally, focus on who lives in us, who has already given us everything. That's where happiness comes from. It comes from within. Because how can we not be happy when He is our constant? Holy Spirit is the only thing that is constant in our lives. There is no up and down, there is no where do I go? There is no just confusion. Confusion is of the devil. We God is does not operate in confusion. Just because it's unknown or unseen, that doesn't cause confusion. He still gives us peace in the middle, in the midst of a storm. He's the one who puts your mind at ease.

Wants Versus Needs And True Provision

SPEAKER_00 5:22

So don't focus on what you lack because you lack nothing. Again, as he feeds the birds and he dresses the flowers, he will do the same for you. Just because you can't go out and purchase something does not mean that you don't have everything that you need. The world operates in wants. God operates in necessities. You have everything that you need because he's gonna provide everything that you need because he is our provider. He will not leave you without. Even if you're lacking something right now, trust me, there in some way, shape, or form, there's going to be a person, there's going to be a place, there's going to be something that's going to cross your path that's going to give you everything that you need.

Final Blessing And Closing

SPEAKER_00 6:10

Everyone, stay blessed.