It is often the simplest things in life that bring the most joy.
Not fancy car, or house by the lake or diamond ring, commodities sold in the marketplace.
You will not find joy in famous faces, salacious spaces or popular places.
Instead, if you listen, you can hear joy in a bird’s song in the early dawn.
You can feel it in the rhythm of dancing fountains – feel it in the cool mists of cascading waterfalls.
You can taste its wondrous flavors as you eat an ice cream cone.
Or, smell it in the fragrance from flowers or from a lit candle as you relax in a bubble bath.
Need joy?
Look for it in the faces of children, young and old, cooling off at a city fire hydrant on a hot summer day.
Give joy when you smile at others and say hello as you walk down the street.
Need joy?
Give and you shall receive, good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over shall others give to you….
Abundantly, cheerfully, joyfully!