Steadfast, resilient, and increasingly happy (2 Thessalonians 1:1-4, 11-12)
There’s a hard truth about existence in 2 Thessalonians 1 that social science bears out.
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Research shows that happiness is U-shaped, bottoming out in your late 40s—making the unhappiest age 47.2, according to multiple studies.
