Broken Blessings / Jubilee
“If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who […]
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Tag: Joy
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 phenomenon: “[A]n unsatisfied desire which is itself more desirable than any […]
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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 Mentalist Joy was not a deception. Its visitations were rather the moments […]
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Joy (And Truth and Love)
Few words fall more glibly from Christian tongues than Joy. Yet few experiences are more profoundly central to Christian spirituality as it is presented by the New Testament, and few […]
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Joy – Brief
True joy is not some fleeting temporal thing contingent on circumstance. Abiding joy is a gift from God, and I found it over the course of the most painful event […]
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Home at Last / Song of Songs
Home At Last Homesick hungry weary lonely, Hearts beleaguered, yet unbowed. Still we seek thee ancient beauty Shining prospect glimpsed through cloud. Bright horizon, distant city Where our joy […]
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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 insurmountable and travel impossible. In the midst of a kind of togetherness in […]
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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, Nutkin and Twinkleberry and all the other little squirrels came out of […]
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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 of paper that gives so many so much joy? My […]
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