Joy

If you look around today you’ll find people that are morose physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually; I’ve often wondered what causes this state of being, and I’m convinced that the main root of this feeling is the fact that most people have lost or forgotten the way of being joyous.

A majority of people in this daynage find themselves bondsman to a system that tirelessly put demand on their resource, physically, mentally and to an ever increasing extent, spiritually. We are made to be so busy and expanding all our energy in activities that doesn’t satisfy or fulfil us, that we don’t have the time to engage in fulfilling regenerative pursuits.

Religion, that for a long time has tried to act as the equaliser, has fallen prey to the old adage ‘if you can’t beat them join them’; today people see religion as a duty that must be transacted, as opposed to a transformational experience.

I recall reading somewhere in the scriptures the statement “… be still and know that I am God”, translated, we sometimes need to stop and smell the coffee, stop and enjoy the fruits of our labour, stop and smell the roses, stop and bask in the pleasures ‘beauty of the moment’.