Article November 18, 1967 Issue

The Right to Be Joyful

FRANK S. MOORMAN

What a sparkling quality is joy! How delightful it is! It is a wellspring flowing from an inexhaustible source, clear, refreshing, bubbling, exuberant. It indicates a simplicity of thought; one who expresses joy expects good, experiences it, and is grateful and happy because of it.

True joy is a divine quality that exists entirely separate from a material universe. It was with Spirit, God, from the beginning, and the man of God's creating—the real man—receives it abundantly and by reflection manifests it. Joy is a birthright that cannot be taken from man.

But to bring joy into the human experience, it is necessary to understand God. Christian Science reveals God as the divine Principle, or Soul, of all. It teaches us that man and the universe are the reflection, or idea, of Principle, therefore mental and spiritual, not physical and material, and that, in understanding God, we also understand His attributes, which man reflects. Joy, pure and unconfined, is one of those attributes. As we understand this, we can experience true joy in our daily affairs.

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