The joy that I have been experiencing lately was heightened by my traveling to the lowlands this week. Redbud doesn't grow in the mountains where I live. I think it is probably my favorite spring blossom. So my trip was a lavender journey into joy.
Springtime accounts for some of the intense joy that I have been experiencing lately, but I think my recent immersion in the New Testament has something to do with it as well. For two months I have been studying in a much deeper way than before the Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles, and the letters of Paul. Not just studying them, but reflecting on them in a very prayerful way and sharing them with others. I have been greatly impressed with the struggle of these sacred writers to express the inexpressible God. It is impossible to be drawn into the Divine Mystery without experiencing Divine Joy.
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