A couple was traveling out West. They stopped at a sign that said, "Echo Point."

"Try it," the wife suggested.

"I think it's silly," her husband said. Finally he agreed to try it. He shouted at the top of his voice, "Baloney!" After a moment, he said, "See, nothing happened."

"Try it again," his wife said.

This time he shouted, "I'm the best looking man in the world!" Then the echo came back ” "Baloney!"

Is there anyone here this morning who is absolutely satisfied with everything you are and everything you have? I read recently that only one-third of men and one-half of women rate themselves as being happy. Did you make the cut? The truth is that many of us find ourselves bogged down in the mire of discontent.

The philosopher Schopenhauer once compared us to a Bulldog Ant. If we cut…