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Drawing From the Infinite Well of Joy
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Eunice McGarrahan
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Hebrews 4:16, 2 Corinthians 12:9, 1 Peter 5:10, 2 Corinthians 4:16-18, Revelation 2:10
In Jonathan Kozol’s book, Amazing Grace , he tells of the struggles and sufferings of people in a community in the Bronx, New York. He is amazed at the courage and resilience he found there. He then ...
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Rowan Williams
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1 Peter 3:13-22, 1 Peter 1:6-8, 2 Corinthians 6:10, John 16:20-22, Habakkuk 3:17-18
If I could just come down on that telling phrase – God wants us to be happy… but God doesn’t want us to be happy. God wants joy for us. But joy is something rather different from happiness. Joy is s...
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Emotions are Divine: Why Pastors Need Biblical Permission to Feel
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David Lamb
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John 11:35, Psalm 5:5, Psalm 6:1, Psalm 78:58, Psalm 78:40, Psalm 18:19, Psalm 25:6, Psalm 5:7, Exodus 20:5, Exodus 22:23, Isaiah 15:5, Luke 15:null, Genesis 23:2, Genesis 42:24, 1 Samuel 1:10, 2 Samuel 1:11-12, 2 Kings 8:11-12, 2 Kings 22:18-20, Mark 14:72, John 20:11, Acts 20:37, Revelation 5:4
When the Professor Weeps: A Personal Story About ten years ago, I was teaching a course on the psalms for my seminary students in the midst of a personal health crisis. It wasn’t in my notes, but I ...
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Creation at Play
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Phillip Yancey
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Genesis 1:31, Exodus 31:1-5, Job 38:4-7, John 1:1-3 , Colossians 1:16-17, Psalm 8:3-4
Creation as it felt to God — since then every artist has felt an echo, a sympathetic vibration: a craftsman who squints at his finished product and reckons, “Very good”; a performer who cannot suppres...
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God's Joy Moves From Unmarked Box to Unmarked Box
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Anne Lamott
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Psalm 19:1, Romans 1:20, Isaiah 6:3, John 1:9-10, Colossians 1:16-17
"God's joy," said by the Persian mystic Rumi, "moves from unmarked box to unmarked box, from cell to cell. As rain water down into flower bed. As roses up from ground. Now it looks ...
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What Suffering Does
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David Brooks
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- Happiness
People shoot for happiness, but they often feel empty, alone, and without meaning…People shoot for happiness but feel formed through suffering…Happiness wants you to think about maximizing your benefi...
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Joy Makers?
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Mary Carver
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One day an ad from one of my favorite stores showed up in my email inbox. Splashed across the top in big letters was the phrase “JOY MAKERS.” Of course, the ad was pointing shoppers to deals on toys, ...
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David Brooks
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People shoot for happiness, but they often feel empty, alone, and without meaning…People shoot for happiness but feel formed through suffering…Happiness wants you to think about maximizing your benefi...
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Joy in Persecution
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Bradley Long
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Matthew 5:44, Matthew 5:10-12, 2 Corinthians 12:10, Romans 8:35-37, James 1:2-4, Luke 6:22-23
The first thing the group of American church leaders noticed about the Central Asian pastor they were meeting was his smile. It was huge. It was so big that anyone who looked at it had to smile too!...
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C. S. Lewis
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The settled happiness and security which we all desire, God withholds from us by the very nature of the world: but joy, pleasure, and merriment He has scattered broadcast. We are never safe, but we ha...
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W. H. Auden
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- Happiness
- Joy
In times of joy, we all wish we had a tail we could wag.
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Timothy Keller
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- Happiness
While other worldviews lead us to sit in the midst of life’s joys, foreseeing the coming sorrows, Christianity empowers its people to sit in the midst of this world’s sorrows, tasting the coming joy.
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M. Scott Peck
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Simply Seek happiness, and you are not likely to find it. Seek to create and love without regard to your happiness, and you will likely be happy much of the time. Seeking joy in and of itself will not...
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Oscar Wilde
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go
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Mark Oerter
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- Happiness
- Pleasure
We aim for happiness but we settle for pleasure…which is only momentary.
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Samuel Johnson
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- Pleasure
- Happiness
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought; our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
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C. S. Lewis
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- Wonder
- Happiness
There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.
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Jared C. Wilson
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God doesn’t “just” want you to be happy; he wants you to be holy as he is holy and to find true, lasting joy in him.
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Finnish Proverb
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- Happiness
Happiness is a place between too little and too much.
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Randy Alcorn
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- Happiness
Until Christ completely cures us and this world, our happiness will be punctuated by times of great sorrow. But that doesn’t mean we can’t be predominantly happy in Christ. Being happy as the norm rat...
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Frank McKinney Hubbard
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It’s hard to tell what brings happiness. Poverty and wealth have both failed.
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Thomas Merton
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Genesis 1:31 , Ecclesiastes 3:1-8, Proverbs 3:5-6 , Matthew 11:28-30, Galatians 5:22-23, Psalm 1:3
We cannot be happy if we expect to live all the time at the highest peak of intensity. Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.
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Go, as God's people of joy
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Jacob Traeger
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Luke 15:1-10, Philippians 4:4, Psalm 118:24, 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18
Go, as God’s people of joy, carrying in your hearts the good news that our God delights to seek and save all who are lost. May you know how deeply Christ values each and every person who you encounter...
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C. S. Lewis
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"A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered…What it will be when I remember it as I lie down to die, what it makes in me all my days till then-that is the real meeting. The other is only...
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Samuel Johnson
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- Laughter
- Happiness
Mirth is like a flash of lightning that breaks through a gloom of clouds and glitter for the moment. Cheerfulness keeps up daylight in the mind, filling it with steady and perpetual serenity.
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Does God Want Us to Be Happy? A Fictional C.S. Lewis Ponders…
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C. S. Lewis
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The film Shadowlands tries to capture the emerging relationship between C.S. Lewis and the American Joy Davidson, who would inevitably succumb to cancer. In one dialogue between the pair, the subject ...
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Psalm 118:24
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Psalm 118:24
This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it. Optionally, add: Let us worship the Lord!
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William Barclay
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Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
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Dr. Seuss
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Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.
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Light for Those in Darkness
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Steve Garnaas Holmes
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Luke 1:78-79
By the tender mercy of our God, the dawn from on high will break upon us, to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace. RESPO...