Joy

Joy

Joy in Christ is more than secular-

The need and want to fill the immediate,

Intelligent people,

(Not intellectuals, blah, blah, blah),

Truly intelligent people,

Will look beyond the finite scopes,

The ones that introspect,

Themselves,

All knowledge comes from –

Not me,

And, I don’t think it comes from you-

Anyone of you,

Yet, here we are,

Happiness is wonderful,

Knowledge like happiness is fleeting,

One bad day depletes happiness,

One embolus depletes knowledge,

Happiness is fleeting when family leave now,

Happiness escapes you when you are old,

Happiness is a fickle thing sometimes,

But, JOY has depth,

Joy is the ever present feeling of a ground of being that has no end, and no beginning,

Joy will hang around when everything else fails,

Joy is the determinant,

Joy is the welling up of all things good,

Joy is that which will pull you up,

Joy is humility,

Joy is community,

Joy is family,

Joy is love incarnate,

Joy comes from Christ,

Christ is of God,

God IS the only everlasting JOY!

Peter Lowell Paulson

July 8, 2014