Joy, Beauty, and Tears

Emotions have a way of finding a prominent place in our lives....with or without our permission...
Discipline and 'self-control' can keep them under our command generally.....until.....we get in a crisis...then very often...reflex sets in....
The inside 'depositary' bank of our emotional life....bursts forth like a gusher from a well ....
a lifetime of deposits to this inner vault can be seen in a single moment in time....
Anger, pain, suffering, negative thinking, as well as beauty, love, joy, happiness and laughter.
....Do you know the cliche..."You can travel the world looking for beauty....but unless you take it with you...you will never find it."
The inner heart must contain a 'beauty' mirror in order to see it reflected in the outside world.
Losing someone dear to our heart and lives causes an emotion that in its intensity defies words.
Tears are important, and so often they're the only thing we can say about a situation...and are the most...eloquent.
Joy.....today's word in my devotion....can burst forth from observing the laugh of a child, the fresh air after a rain, the hug from a loved one, a book of inspiration and on and on...
The people and circumstances that seem to create my joy are, in reality, reflecting what I already have in the deepest part of me...what has been 'deposited' beforehand...
I am grateful for the joy of God daily....that feeds my soul and deposits itself within my being...
Yes, the 'Joy of the Lord' is my strength...