Joy

Are you joyful?

Every day?

Can you find joy in each day you are alive? 

That is the goal or perhaps the lesson. In every moment and in every day and in every way there is joy. There is no reason that this cannot be true. You cannot provide to us the “evidence” that joy is not surrounding you at all times. Most of you are in the middle of the Emporium of Joy and you think the shelves are empty. Where are you looking? You are looking down and out and everywhere but inside of your Self to find the joy that is available to you right here, right now. What would it take for you to be joyful? The right answer is NOTHING. You choose it. You can choose it from the darkest place in your life because there does not have to be a reason. Choose laughter rather than tears or better yet, laugh until you cry. Why do you have to have a reason to be happy? 

So many of you plod about life waiting for something good to happen. It is happening in every second of your life because you are alive and while you are alive you have choice and while you have choice you have joy – if you so choose. 

How irritating are you finding this message right now? Our guess is plenty because you are all evidence building that this is not true. You are lining up all of your woes and trials and tribulations to “prove” that you have no reason to be happy or joyful or full of laughter. We are not wrong. You can laugh during a funeral if you so choose. Why would you? Because perhaps the person that is gone was wonderful fun and you can think of something that made you smile. Or perhaps the person that is gone was a difficult and unhappy person and without them you might find greater joy. You do not have to have a reason and there is no right and wrong. The point of this lesson is to let you know that YOU CHOOSE the emotions you have, they do not choose you. If you do not like that which you have, then change it, but do not seek outside of your Self for the change agent for it is not with-out, it is within. You can change today years of sadness and unhappiness by doing just that – choosing to not have it any longer. 

We leave you in joy and love as always. 

May your choices be for peace and joy.

Namaste

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