"Don't go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one." - Marcus Aurelius
David Moye, with The Huffington Post, writes: If North Carolina ever gets tired of being called the "Tar Heel State," there’s another nickname just waiting for them: "Home of the happiest mug shots"...Mugshots from all over the country were simply put through Microsoft Cognitive Services, a web-based tool that can detect emotions, in order to determine the moods of each suspect. The facial recognition software sorted the various booking photos into...happy, sad or most surprised...North Carolina came out on top for smiling suspects...
The crimes these smiling suspects were most likely accused weren’t anything to grin about. They included contributing to the delinquency of a minor, cruelty to animals,
child sex abuse, vandalism and resisting arrest. It might seem strange to grin when you’re being arrested, but happiness was the dominant emotion in 59 percent of the mug shots examined by the software.
There's a time to be happy, and it's definitely not while you're being sanctioned for an offense. However, aren't we all "guilty" of this? You wonder how. I'll tell you. Haven't you ever been happy over someone's misfortune who once wronged you? Haven't you once exacted revenge; or been happy at the demise of an enemy? It’s a heart problem, and we all suffer from it. Sure, God wants us to be happy. But about the right things - like love, mercy and forgiveness.
Let us pray: Father, I receive grace to do what is just beginning from today, in Jesus name.
WISDOM NUGGET: Micah 6:8
"...the LORD has told us...What he requires of us...to do what is just, to show constant love..." - GNT
"...the LORD has told us...What he requires of us...to do what is just, to show constant love..." - GNT
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