Joy Is For Everybody

What Joys Have You Experienced In Your Life?

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This world is made for a lot of people
People are not everybody 
There’s plants, animals, microorganisms as well
And everybody is capable of experiencing joy

When plants are joyful 
They look pretty 
Animals express their joy to us directly 
Microorganisms that experience joy 
They make us healthy and happy as well

Joy is not confined to individuals 
That are rich or healthy 
Or of a certain age or gender
Joy is bestowed as blessing to everybody 

Joy is not happy 
Joy is a state of happiness 
That’s many degrees over happy
Joy makes one experience bliss
As if there is no end to it

Certain people and events 
Can make us experience joy
Like having a baby, for instance 
Graduating from college 
For working really hard to do so
Getting married to a loved one
Even seeing a loved one after a long time 
In person
Being able to hug them
Kiss them and experience them 
Can take us to the state of experiencing joy in our lives 

Waking up from sleep 
And seeing a loved one who is still asleep beside you 
Is a mild form of joy 
Which brings a kind of sweetness to the soul 

Seeing a loved one after a really long time 
Like perhaps years for instance 
That’s a different kind of joy 
You can’t stop the smile extending from ear to ear 
For the entire duration of the hour long video call 

When your son comes back home from college 
Even if it’s only after a three-month break
There’s no joy that can equal that 
When you can hug him tight to you once again 

There’s a joy even when he calls you 
All by himself and goes on and on and on 
Even if it’s talking nonsense 
How much more if it is something he did 
That he’s proud about as an accomplishment!

There’s joy even in silly behaviors sometimes 
Like laughing together along with a big group 
Over something that’s not even real
Like forcing a laughter for laughter’s sake 
Just to get the body to experience 
The good effects of laughter for everybody 

There’s something beyond the ordinary 
That happens to our soul 
When we experience joy of any kind 

It’s very healing 
It’s incredibly powerful 
It takes away pain
Suffering 
Tensions 
Stresses 
Anger
Jealousies 
You name it 

Every negative emotion 
Bent on tying us down to a pothole 
No matter by who or what 
That’s acting in the shadows 
To enable that in us

Even a pair of beautiful monarchs 
Flying at the right time 
Across your windshield 
When there is whole host of cars waiting in line 
Ahead of and behind you

Those beautiful orange insects 
That are chasing each other 
And flying across yours
Can bring about joy in you
That can last forever in your mind 

As a reminder 
To the power of the Heavenly Father 
Who sees you 
And knows you 
And understands you
Everything that you are going through 

And wants to communicate with you 
While also amazing you
With just a pair of beautiful flying butterflies 
Chasing each other through the wind 
Simulating what’s going on in your life 
And thereby bringing on you explicit joy 
That lasts forever 
And something you can keep coming back to 
As much as you want to do so for life 

Joy is a blessing from heaven 
Made especially for you

What joys have you experienced in your life
That can bring about a lightening of your spirit 
When you are going through a rough time?

How has the universe held you tight 
And made you wonder 
With words like ‘I have no words’?

Think about this!
Peace ✌🏽 

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