Looking for Joy - MTL Magazine by Rick and Kay Warren
You made the team!
You’ve been awarded a scholarship!
We’d like to hire you!
Will you marry me?
Great job on closing that deal!
You’ve just won an all-expense-paid vacation!
There’s no sign of cancer!
These are some of life’s sweetest moments—when all is right with the world, all your fondest hopes and wildest dreams come true, and your heart nearly explodes with happiness. You could make your own personal “it doesn’t get any better than this” commercial.
But there are also other moments when nothing seems to go your way, everything that could go wrong does go wrong, and your fondest hopes and wildest dreams lie in shattered pieces at your feet. Those are the moment when your heart aches with the bitterness of unfulfilled longings, broken promises, or grief so powerful it threatens to take you to your knees.
Where does joy fit into these scenes from your life?
Sharing meaningful time with family and friends, having a great job, enjoying good health, being financially secure—aren’t these the building blocks for a happy life? Most of us would say these happy moments create joy, don’t they? Probably everyone would agree that feelings of happiness are sometimes tough to come by so you better grab them when you can. Isn’t that enough?
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