@Knittinggrace @tymektt @Olamide I'd also like to encourage you in your approach to scripture. It's easy to go to scripture to find verses to support what we are looking for, so dangerous and easy to take scripture out of context when we do this, cause then others can do the same for opposite view. For example, you quote Ecc 7:3 But I can point to Ecc 3:4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; or Pro 15:13&14 A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken. All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.

We could do this all day swapping back and forth, with our favorite verses, but for what point, to prove that one of us is right and the other wrong? Aren’t we on the same side? Shouldn’t we be working together for one common cause to point people to Jesus and if the love of Jesus is in our hearts shouldn’t that be reflected by the joy that is in our lives?