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Joy
is one of the greatest gifts we can share with each other. Many
times we overlook the opportunities to give of this wonderful
gift and so we lose the opportunity to have It returned to us.
JOY Is a Spirit that Is resident within
each of us. When we receive It and when we share It with
others, we can feel it, we can even feel it move through us
physically. We know that whatever we give to anyone, we give to
ourselves. So as we take every possible opportunity to give as
much JOY out to the world as we possibly can feel, the more JOY
will be returned to us.
Imagine your Life filled with JOY..........
real JOY..... not the smiling face that we put on to cover up a
heart filled with sorrow and disappointment or the smile that
camouflages a mind heavy with troubles and concern.
JOY frees the mind to accept new ideas.
JOY frees the soul to give and accept Love freely and easily.
JOY stimulates the imagination to go beyond the Life we have
lived to a Life filled with richness and vitality. But
to do so, we must let go of our ego, let go of our timidity, our
reserved-ness and truly let It SPRING FORTH FROM WITHIN US!
JOY has healing power.
As we allow ourselves to fully experience the JOY within, It
heals our mind, It heals our heart and It heals our soul of the
baggage that we drag with us from the past into the present.
"The JOY of the Lord Is upon me." This beautiful passage
from the scriptures tells us emphatically that JOY can be called
forth into our mind and heart. Our Lord is the law of our mind.
We must recognize It, we must pray for It, we must strive to
embrace It in our daily lives, in our relationships with others
and in all things that concern us and those we love.
JOY! JOY! JOY!
It is the motivating power for all desire. Whatever it is that
we want, desire, wish for or pray for, JOY Is at the heart of
it! A new car brings us greater JOY, a new home brings us
greater JOY, a wonderful, loving relationship brings us JOY!
JOY Is the motivation behind all desires for Good.
"THERE IS GOOD FOR ME AND I OUGHT TO HAVE
IT," this Is the thought of Truth that leads us to our
greater Good, and also to move us to increase our spiritual
awareness. This thought creates in us dissatisfaction with the
mundane, with a Life rife with struggle and fear. This thought
is with us at all times but often we will repress it, refuse to
allow it. It can even begin to evoke fear within our minds,
fear that what we have is all we can have, fear that what we
have experienced in the past is pretty much what we will
experience in the future. But this Is not the Truth if we are
willing to increase our Consciousness of JOY.
It takes strength to create JOY, especially
when the conditions and circumstances of our lives are
frustrating to us. But we must unite with
that Divine Fire within us or we become an isolated spark.
We are strong only when we are united with gifts of Joy, Love,
Happiness, Harmony, Peace, Light. As soon as our consciousness
is detached from the spiritual Good, we can no longer draw from
that inexhaustible reservoir of eternal existence, so we become
exhausted - joy-less, as though there is nothing to fall back
on.
Pray for JOY - declare JOY as manifest in every
area of your Life. Feel the JOY in every experience that you
are having knowing that no matter what is going on, the energy
of JOY will propel you into your highest and greatest Good.
SHARE THE JOY WITHIN YOU WITH EVERYONE AT EVERY POSSIBLE
OPPORTUNITY! GIVE JOY FROM THAT INFINITE SOURCE OF JOY WITHIN
YOU AND IT WILL RETURN TO YOU MULTIPLIED ABUNDANTLY! I
GUARANTEE IT!!!
Keep the Faith!
Rev-Bates
(Reverend Dr. Henry Lee Bates)
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