I pick Joy for the WIN

Happy vs. Joy  (Get Joy...Get Joy...Get Joy)  subtitled There is a song about it...Joy Joy Joy down in my soul!

 

 Ecclesiastes 9:7 Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart, for God has already approved what you do.

 

I wish I did better at documenting what I read.  So I could be like the fancy intelligent folks who can say, "Here is a quote from blah blah blah, I came across when I was reading blah blah blah"

But I'm not that lady, I do read though and one day I was reading a book (hmm or maybe I was listening to a TV show, ANYWAY) and it was discussing how happiness is external but joy is so much deeper (internal).    

You can't be happy and sad at the same time...Simply put they cancel each other out.  I can look back over my life though and pick out a few sad moments and I can truly say even in the midst of it all I still had joy.

Several people were amazed at the reaction I had when my car was stolen.  Oh they said I would have been angry and cussing and fussing.  I'm no saint so I'm in no way shape or form above cussing and fussing (heck if you catch me watching a football game - you will clearly see that I am quite talented at cussing and fussing)  When my car got stolen I was hurt and I was sad, but in me bubbled up a joy.  I knew it would all be alright.  Not just a general knowing.  I could feel in my spirit that a way would be made, so my soul danced with Joy.

I'm not a theologian, a scientist, or a psychic I only can speak from my experiencing.  Praising God in the middle of the storm, enhances the joy in your soul.  Giving your storm over to God enhances your joy.  Loving when you should hate enhances your joy. 

Don't worry about what the world thinks or says, because they will always ask why are you so happy as they look from the outside in to your circumstances.

What they can't see is the joyous light of God working it out on the inside of you.

Choose JOY

Here is a great article about Joy vs. Happiness as well

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/pathological-relationships/201212/joy-vs-happiness

  Joy

Joy is a state of mind and an orientation of the heart. It is a settled state of contentment, confidence and hope. It is something or someone that provides a source of happiness. It appears 88 times in the Old Testament in 22 books; 57 times in the New Testament in 18 books.^

http://www.theopedia.com/Joy

** Recognize the word SOURCE (Get your Source)