This document discusses the importance of maintaining a positive attitude. It notes that attitude affects your choices, others, and family. True joy is found in God alone and is everlasting, certain, and will continue in the afterlife, unlike the short, uncertain happiness of those without faith. The document encourages maintaining joy by focusing on eternal spiritual renewal rather than temporary earthly afflictions and keeping perspective that unseen eternal things are more important than visible temporary things.

5. Maintaining Joy “ So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.” “ For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen.” “ For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.” (2 Corinthians 4:16-18; ESV)