title: Journey to Joy: Learning Ancient Secrets for Happiness
author: Keith Wishum
description: Keith has been many things. He has lived in 3 states, held 20 different jobs, graduated from three universities and attended two others. For 32 years, he has been a husband to his wife Becky. He has been a father to his children, Russ and Grace. For 20 years, he has been a minister to the Williams Road Church in Americus, Georgia. He has been a middle school English teacher and a Public Relations Director. Keith has been many things in many places. At times, he has been miserable and depressed. Other times, he has also been quite happy. Over time, he is learning the secret of being content in any and every situation. He wants to share that secret with you in Journey to Joy.
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  Happiness is but a dream v. 2.57, www.philaletheians.co.uk, 30 September 2017 
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  Happiness is but a dream 
  
  LIVING THE LIFE SERIES 
  HAPPINESS IS BUT A DREAM 
  Happiness is but a dream v. 2.57, www.philaletheians.co.uk, 30 September 2017 
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  Still from the found of joy’s delicious springs 
  Some bitter o’er the flowers its bubbling venom flings. 
   — Lord George Gordon Byron
  1 
  Go, deck the board with damask fine, 
  Cheer of the best, and mirth and wine: 
  Fill fast the cups, and in their train 
  Bring perfumes, wreaths — ’Tis all in vain! 
  ‘Mid the full flood of revelries, 
  Some drop of bitterness will rise 
  To dash the pleasure of the hour, 
  And poison each delightsome flower. 
   — Francis Henry King
  2 
   
  After Cicero 
  He is the happy man, to whom nothing in this life seems intolerable enough to de-
  press him; nothing exquisite enough to transport him unduly. For what is there in 
  this life that can appear great to him who has acquainted himself with eter