I love this section. I wish more sermons were on the subject of joy. Thomas says, "Till you can sing and rejoice and delight in God, as misers do in gold, and kings in scepters, you never enjoy the world." This is how I look at the world. You can find joy and delight in everything on this earth because our heavenly father made it. What a gift he has given us just to see each season in all its changes. I just don't understand how you can see the sierra college trees in fall, with all the beauty and intracate detail in each leaf and not rejoice. I could sit under those trees smiling for hours. No matter where you live or how bad your life may seem there is always something to be joyful about. always.
I love the way he ends this passage with how we enter the world with such innocence and joy. But as we grow we can become tainted but the goal is to become like children. Children are such a great example of pure joy. I am a teacher for autistic children, which is not an easy job. These kids have so many social and mental setbacks its devistating. But these kids can sit in a corn of a room doing absolutly nothing, and have a huge smile on their face completly content with the world. Honestly I have so much to learn from them. Everyday I am constantly running around trying to get things done, when they are content to just be. These kids can be an example for everyone of what true joy is. True joy is to just sit, look around, and be joyful for the gift of life.
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i agree. more sermons should be on joy. life is beautiful. even though it says not to get attached to worldy possessions, God created this earth for us to enjoy while we're here. for us to see the beauty in his creations. i LOVE when its fall at sierra. the trees get so pretty. i remember my first semester at sierra i loved just walking from class to class cause the tree's changing colors, the leaves falling, the weather. it's beautiful.
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