happiness is dependent not on circumstances but on perspective, which is determined by our focus. David Brainerd was orphaned at fourteen and suffered from debilitating tuberculosis. One day he “found some relief in prayer; loved, as a feeble, afflicted, despised creature, to cast myself on a God of infinite grace and goodness, hoping for no happiness but from Him. . . . Toward night, I felt my soul rejoice that God is unchangeably happy and glorious.”[26] Brainerd made the daily choice to connect