Stillness 12-4:
They say we are always accompanied by a joy angel, as well as our guardian angel, and others who may come and go as we call on them. Joy, the angels tell us, is not a feeling, like grief or anger: joy is an innate aspect of who we are in our spirit. We are being of love and light. We are also beings of joy.
I have been trying to excavate that joy out of some dark layered realms within me. But of course that’s not how one does it. Cheerfulness grows through expanding our hearts outward into the world, not by venturing into the sad and difficult crevasses within. Cheerfulness exists in the very air we breathe, the friends we have, our creative work, the homes we create, and the hearts that beat in tandem with our beloved earthly existence.
I have decided to be cheerful. I am going to change something deeply fundamental in myself—and feel and share the hope and wonder I know is present for us all.