tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66020887068243782482011-11-27T19:47:29.423-05:00....One woman&#39;s quest to recapture the joy and spontaneity she knows is her natural state of BEing........CJnoreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6602088706824378248.post-79387440759255547822011-01-28T13:21:00.009-05:002011-01-28T15:06:02.818-05:00<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_lnvNYSXSsZQ/TUMTBqtrSdI/AAAAAAAAAEQ/QeLFuNox-io/s1600/98ec51f4-4abb-47b6-80d9-ed2b869741b2w.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 161px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 141px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5567314483726731730" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_lnvNYSXSsZQ/TUMTBqtrSdI/AAAAAAAAAEQ/QeLFuNox-io/s200/98ec51f4-4abb-47b6-80d9-ed2b869741b2w.jpg" /></a> <div><div><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 151px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 143px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5567312629202962034" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lnvNYSXSsZQ/TUMRVuEwRnI/AAAAAAAAAEA/M3eznXaq_5w/s200/AAAAA.jpg" /><br /><div><div><div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><br /><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_lnvNYSXSsZQ/TUMRpHYTkaI/AAAAAAAAAEI/5IKGeUKqrhc/s1600/pinkcotton.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 140px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5567312962413367714" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_lnvNYSXSsZQ/TUMRpHYTkaI/AAAAAAAAAEI/5IKGeUKqrhc/s200/pinkcotton.jpg" /></a>Joy<br /><br />I desire more joy in my life.<br /><br />I want to to feel more joy.<br /><br />What is joy really, have you ever asked yourself that?<br /><br />Is joy the same as happiness?<br /><br />If you wake and feel an overwhelming sense of joy does that mean you are out there dancing in the streets?<br /><br />Does it mean you are one of those people who never stops smiling, who moves a mile a minute and just can't sit still?<br /><br />I looked up the definition of joy, here it is according to Merriam Webster:<br /><span style="font-size:78%;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">Definition of JOY<br />1<br />a : the emotion evoked by well-being, success, or good fortune or by the prospect of possessing what one desires : delight b : the expression or exhibition of such emotion : gaiety<br />2<br />: a state of happiness or felicity : bliss<br />3<br />: a source or cause of delight<br /></span><br />I think 'joy' is widely misunderstood according to these definitions. Joy isn't an 'over the top' emotion/feeling, instead the way I see it, it is more of an inner thing.<br /><br />"the emotion evoked by well-being"..............Ohhhhhh to simply be joyful from a sense of well-being...... that truly makes my heart feel light..... but my favorite definition is:<br /><br />"a state of happiness or felicity : bliss".............<br /><br />Felicity.........felicity, that word just sounds happy and joyful doesn't it?<br /><br />Felicity, it conjures up thoughts of white puffy clouds, soft wet baby kisses, puppy breath, pink cotton candy, sun flowers on a cloudy day, the sound of children laughing, angels hovering overhead...............<br /><br />I'm not looking for that over the top emotion/feeling, I'm simply looking for the feeling that each of those things hold as it's vibration.<br /><br />Let's face it pink cotton candy just can't have a bad hair day you know because cotton candy is just a sugary, sweet, unruly kind of thing, it's its nature, it has to be that way, it's one of the reason's we love it so don't you think?....and besides it's FUN, it makes you feel like a kid again!<br /><br />Same with soft wet baby kisses, I mean when one of my grandchildren give me one of their wet kisses everything else melts away and I am left with just this sweet, soft, all consuming feeling of peace and contentment, I bet that is felicity!<br /><br />I bet the angels who hover over us are in a constant state of felicity and I bet a sun flower never found a thing to frown about or feel sad about, even on a cloudy day!<br /><br />And clouds...............white fluffy clouds....how do you think the phrase "on cloud nine" came to be........because fluffy white clouds make you smile don't they, they make you think of lofty things......they conjure up thoughts of castles, fair maiden's and knights of the round table, of wistful dreams tucked inside your heart and angels who play their harps while sitting upon them..............<br /><br />Felicity, if I were young and were to have more children, I would name my next girl child "Felicity".............that word just makes me smile...............Felicity<br /><br />A Return To Felicity!<br /><br />I like the sound of that, I like the feeling of that, I like the idea, the concept of that!<br /><br />Perhaps joy, is but a moment to moment vibration?<br /><br />Perhaps felicity is an emotion, a state of being that one must choose.<br /><br />We must choose it each morning just like we choose the clothes we wear.<br /><br />Now that is really something to ponder on isn't it?!<br /><br />Peace, Love &amp; FELICITY!<br />CJ</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6602088706824378248-7938744075925554782?l=areturntojoy.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>CJnoreply@blogger.com0