JOY

Mary Marcia
America's STORYTELLER
Telling Untold Stories in Photographs, Prose and Public Speaking


What brings you joy?

 
What is joy anyway? 

JOY Synonyms: (words having the same or nearly the same meaning):  beatitude, blessedness, bliss, blissfulness, felicity, gladness, happiness, warm fuzzies

JOY Antonyms: (words opposite in meaning) calamity, ill-being, misery, sadness, unhappiness, wretchedness

The first known use of the word JOY was in the 13th century.  It's from the Anglo-French joie, from Latin gaudia, plural of gaudium, from gaudere to rejoice.  The Greek gethein means to rejoice.

Author, Terry Pratchett, writes science fiction, fantasy, humor and award winning (Carnegie Medal) children's books.  Pratchett wrote in   A Hat Full of Sky:

"JOY is to fun what the deep sea is to a puddle.  

It's a feeling inside that can hardly be contained."

Visionary French Jesuit, paleontologist, biologist and philosopher, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, said:

"JOY is the infallible sign of the presence of God." 

American author and humorist, Mark Twain, had something to say about JOY:

"To get the full value of  JOY - 

you must have someone to divide it with."

My wish for you today:

May your heart always be filled with the JOYS of simple things. 

    

  But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, 

forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,  

gentleness and self-control.

Holy Bible

Galatians 5:22-23

 

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Mary Marcia

America's STORYTELLER

Telling Untold Stories in Photographs, Prose and Public Speaking