My friend and I were talking about the difference between happiness and joy. I recalled having that clarified by the great author C.S. Lewis, so I looked it up. This is what he said:
"Joy must be sharply distinguished both from Happiness and Pleasure. Joy (in my sense) has indeed one characteristic, and one only, in common with them; the fact that anyone who has experienced it will want it again … I doubt whether anyone who has tasted it would ever, if both were in his power, exchange it for all the pleasures in the world. But then Joy is never in our power and Pleasure often is.”
Theopedia defines joy as a person or thing that provides a source of happiness.
Today, my joys are my daughter, snow, coffee, dear friends, Calico and Nancy Drew, leftovers, Klimt paintings, rivers, and rock climbing.
What is your joy?
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