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What If We All Focused on Giving and Receiving Joy?
Right now, it seems like all the forces are focused on bringing anger to the world. Imagine if each of us, instead of worrying about what others are doing wrong, spent all that energy focused on bringing Joy to others. Imagine, when someone tries to bring joy to us, we are able to actually accept it.
It is easier to focus on what is wrong. It is easier to hate another, and to be honest, to hate what we don’t like about ourselves. Our brains look for what is going off, so we can protect. But if we charge around in protection mode all the time, we are not doing more than just staying alive. It is not living and thriving.
I am going to try to focus on giving Joy and Receiving it more. I need God to help me on this one.
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If only that were true. It’s the end of the line when you can’t.
“And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all who hear will laugh with me.”
Well, you can always smile at someone or give someone a compliment!
You’re right, thanks! And btw 😀 You look lovely!
Haha! And I love your hair
So true – and so pretty – Righty!
Bryan, I wondered whether to even write about this kind of joy, because it’s so mundane. On the other hand, I suspect it’s a joy that several others here on Ricochet share, so I went for it. Thanks for the inspiration :-)
Finding gratitude and enjoyment in the ordinary is a gift in and of itself. One we often ignore or discount. Thank you both. :-)
I’m just reading an article in the TLS (this week it’s all about LSD) which sez that with tiny doses of that, we could all experience this kinda joy, all the time! The I/me network disintegrates and we become one with universal love. This is the Golden Vision, which I did experience once without drugs. Suddenly I just felt there was no barrier between my consciousness and what I was seeing outside. I felt myself to be a tingling amorphous cloud. I could talk, I commented on it….then it was gone.
I find this to be true, too. After you’ve suffered a few slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, the sight of a bumblebee on a flower can seem miraculous.
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