The Difference Between Happiness and Joy
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It doesn’t matter how much is going on in your life; joy can still be present. You see, joy is in your heart at all times. Happiness is usually circumstantial.
Joy is the song your heart sings, regardless of circumstances.
Just because you are an appreciative, joyful human being doesn’t mean things are always optimal. The next time you forget you are a magnificent creation of “all that is”, think of this:
I recall a wonderful couple who frequently visit a cottage near my parents’ cottage. They have an adult child with a severe mental disability who is always challenging them, some interesting family issues, and they live in California, so they just went through floods and fires. They are both in their 80’s. They exude a great deal of joy and peace.
It’s not about pretending to be happy. There is a deep sense of gratitude for what life has provided them, and an aura of profound joy that follows them where ever they go. I feel blessed to know them. They have a reverence for life and a love of people that has made their lives rich — regardless of circumstances.
Happiness is a choice, whereas joyful or peaceful are ways of being. Give this a shot: today, settle into the profound knowing that you are powerful beyond words; you have friends who love you deeply and a Planet that loves and supports you with food, water and air. If you can start today with that knowing, then the rest is just semantics.
Jennifer Hough
