Tag: Joy
Joy in the Mind of the Reader
Why do some people like books so much? What is it about arbitrary lines of ink sequenced on a page...
Joy as Life’s Fuel and Safeguard: Mentalist, Jane Austen, Where the Crawdads Sing, Top Gun: Maverick, Thor: Love and Thunder
When you’re dead, you’re dead, and until then . . . there’s ice cream. — Patrick Jane, The...
Home at Last / Song of Songs
Home At Last Homesick hungry weary lonely, Hearts beleaguered, yet unbowed. Still we seek thee...
Joy – Brief
True joy is not some fleeting temporal thing contingent on circumstance. Abiding joy is a gift...
Joy in the Mystery
There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, “Thy will be done,” and those...
Joy (And Truth and Love)
Few words fall more glibly from Christian tongues than Joy. Yet few experiences are more...
Joy, Happiness, and Scientific Utopia
It is easy to conflate the concepts of joy and happiness, but C.S. Lewis defines joy as a unique...
Broken Blessings / Jubilee
“If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more...
The Shoes
Nick and his two sisters descended the stairs into the basement of St. Patrick’s Catholic Church....
Meticulous Mycologist: How Beatrix Potter Inspired C. S. Lewis’s Joy
“One autumn when the nuts were ripe, and the leaves on the hazel bushes were golden and green,...
Joy’s Arrival / Hidden in the Boughs
‘Joy’s arrival’ was written in the early months of global lockdowns, at a time where distance felt...
Joy: A Photo Essay
Citation Information Tommy Darin Liskey, “Joy: A Photo Essay,” An Unexpected Journal:...
