Article March 30, 1974 Issue

Claim That Joy!

PATRICIA RENNIE

What person does not wish to experience real joy, fulfillment, love? And why not? It is, in fact, everyone's right, their inheritance as children of God. "And if children, then heirs," says the Bible. "Heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ."^{Rom. 8:17;}

God, our Father-Mother, is all good, and He is giving us all good continually. Not only can we claim this, but we can know that joy, fulfillment, and love are ours already, right now, simply because we reflect all these qualities spontaneously from God. Our work is to recognize our spiritual at-one-ment with Him.

I'm sure most of us have moments of happiness when everything is going right, the sun is shining, and the joy within us spills out and lights up everything around us. But true joy, being spiritual, is not momentary but permanent. It is not something ebbing and flowing, something we sometimes have, sometimes don't. Nor is it dependent on events or conditions around us. True spiritual joy is ours always, a gift of God, unchanging, radiant, forever available. We have only to claim it, and the flood tides of God's love will light up our whole human experience.

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