The Year of Living Happy: Finding Contentment and Connection in a Crazy World by Alli Worthington Review

 Hello Friends :)

I hope you're all doing well, and I want to thank you all for joining me for another book review here on The Preppy Book Princess.

I've been thinking a lot about happiness, joy and our flesh lately. It seems so easy to find our happiness in this world, and then scream and freak out every time something doesn't go exactly the way we want it to. However, God never promises us complete happiness and everything we want in this broken world. Finding our happiness apart from God and through our worldly flesh is never the answer, no matter how much society may say otherwise.

As Christians we are called to take up our cross on a daily basis, and deny and repent from any fleshy attitudes, thoughts or actions. So often we seem to just want to float along without any troubles and while that might seem like a great way to live your life, it's also a great way to never mature our faith. 

God can't give us true happiness apart from believing in and accepting Jesus as Savior, and also living a life of dutiful obedience. I've really been reflecting on this lately, and I've had my eyes opened to a lot of areas where I was not letting God reign supreme in my life.

I recently finished a multi month devotional style read about finding true happiness in Jesus, and today seemed like a really great day to talk about this with all of you, and share my thoughts on this particular book on the subject.

The Year of Living Happy: Finding Contentment and Connection in a Crazy World by Alli Worthington:

Source: Included in a Glowbox Purchase

Publisher: Zondervan

Publication Date: October 2nd, 2018

Genre: Christian Non-Fiction/Christian Living

Synopsis:

Take a daily step toward joy and contentment and ditch stress, overwhelming thoughts, and boredom with encouraging and biblical messages from Alli Worthington.

You do your best to live life well—you work hard to be present in the moment, take care of the people in your life, knock it out of the park at work and home. And yet, somehow, you still have days (perhaps more than you'd like to admit) where you're simultaneously stressed and bored, and you wonder if you even know how to be happy. Is happiness a worthy goal? Does happiness matter to God, or does He only care about holier things?

Alli Worthington gets it. As a wife, mother of five boys, author, speaker, and entrepreneur, she knows a thing or two about being busy, stressed, and happy in the midst of a crazy world! Over the years, she's seen how happiness gets a bad rap in Christian circles, and now she is standing up to shout the good news from the roof (or the internet, as the case may be): You are allowed to be happy! Yes, you! You can be happy right now!

Join Alli for The Year of Living Happy: Finding Contentment and Connection in a Crazy World, and find the roots of your happiest life yet. Each of the 100 short and inspirational entries includes


a thoughtful message from Alli, based on God’s Word
practical ways to make your life happier day by day
a journaling section
This gorgeous book, which features a fabric spine, a presentation page, lovely designed interiors, and a ribbon bookmark, is an empowering gift for yourself or any woman you love. It can be used as a daily devotional or as a guided journal.

Be part of this exciting message: Happiness and holiness can coexist for a beautiful life. Don’t miss the great big adventure God has for you. Let this be The Year of Living Happy! 

(synopsis from goodreads)

My Review:

Alli Worthington's The Year of Living Happy is a guidebook of sorts that is meant to demonstrate to readers that true happiness is found in Jesus, gratitude and contentment.

While I may not have agreed with every single one of her ideas, I loved the overall focus of the book and how it used Bible verses and journaling prompts to showcase that happiness can be found in even the most mundane of things if you're attitude is in the right place, and if Jesus is reigning supreme in your life.

I really enjoyed how Alli chooses to demonstrate the importance of accepting that life is not always going to be perfect, and that we don't have to wait for it to be so before we can find happiness again.

Overall, I really enjoyed this beautiful devotional, and plan to reread it in the future, and look back and see if I've made any progress on the many things I journaled throughout reading it. I'm a tad confused as to why it's called The Year of Living Happy, when there's only enough daily readings for a few months, but I still loved it, and look forward to reading more of her books in the future. As someone who can't stand "self help" and "self empowerment" as I always feel it's pulling the focus away from Jesus and our need for Him, I was happy to see that this wasn't the case with this beautiful book, and that it's Biblically sound and deeply rooted in needing a relationship with Jesus.

Final Rating: 5/5.

Thanks so much for reading guys! Have a great rest of your day, and I look forward to sharing more bookish fun with you all in the very near future.

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