Editorial August 28, 1976 Issue

Joy in the Dark Days

Naomi Price

Joy is usually considered to be a consequence rather than a cause. Most people think of it as an emotion that is evoked by harmony rather than a power that can precipitate it. They see joy as a quality that is brought into being by fine weather, not one that it is natural to express during storms in order to dispel them.

In the Bible joy is a working quality. It is a healing attribute— one that can help us obtain the inspiration to solve our problems, not merely something to be expressed after the problems are solved.

Are there times when it seems impossible to express joy—dark days when discord, sadness, problems and more problems beset us, and we seem to have no joy within us to express?

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