Some people are just bursting with joy and for most, it seems so easy for to describe and feel joy. Not for me. I myself have struggled to feel, see and really know joy. I have often asked where the joy in my life is? Why don’t I feel it when there are so many wonderful things in my life?
I see now that joy to me is really more like peace, a calmness, a knowing, a being and appreciating. It is like my son’s face above that says to me “I am…I am here…just the way I am supposed to be”. Where is my joy? It is knowing and loving my truth.
June 16, 2009 at 5:22 pm
So true, my friend. For me, joy has never been a bubbling, overwhelming feeling, but a sense of serenity and peace. Although I appreciate the squealing type of joy, I am glad for the one I get to experience. Have a gloriously joyful day.
June 19, 2009 at 7:58 pm
Kath, I have come to know joy by the physical experience of it. I feel it as a giddiness in my chest and a sensation in my face, that when I stop and think I realize comes from my eyes and mouth turning upwards in a smile that wants to come out, or when I’m lucky actually does, and can’t stop itself. When it can’t be held in, it’s joy! Sometimes those moments are few and far between. But then it is almost more recognizable for its long absence. Let’s have some joy tonight – can’t wait to see you!!
Heidi