Re-joice Part 1

re·joice rəˈjois/verb ~ feel or show great joy or delight. What are you feeling right now? In this very moment are you sensing the stirring of the sacred or perhaps some sadness or numbness or nothingness? Our emotions are fickle and fragile. One moment we can be in the valley...the next whisked away to the mountains....only to encounter or experience something that takes us back to the depth. Is the point of life to be on a level plateau...never too high or too low? Weathering what wanders our way? Is the point of life to ride the roller coaster of letting everything push/pull us one direction or another? Or is the point something a bit deeper and more complex? Because maybe joy doesn't come only from outside but also inside us. Maybe joy is a kind of fuel that feeds us...gift of God's grace...but also something if we are alert we can train ourselves to see and sense. Think of it this way...since 2001 we have been taught that if, "You see