The Pursuit of Happyness: Running Toward the Dream (Hebrews 12:1)

Chris Gardner in The Pursuit of Happyness literally runs - to work, to daycare, to shelter beds, to interviews - while carrying his son and his dreams through homelessness. The scene of Chris and his son sleeping in a subway bathroom is both heartbreaking and inspiring: this father will not quit. Hebrews urges us to run with perseverance the race marked out for us. Chris runs not for himself but for his son, not for wealth but for dignity, not to escape poverty but to provide possibility. The pursuit of happiness is not selfish ambition but sacred calling - the determination to give the next generation more than we received.