AROSE BY ANY OTHER NAME—
“this blog thing” is nearing 200 entries and most recently a couple readers (and I appreciate each of you more than you might know, but maybe less than I should because I’m not sure any of us is grateful enough for the folks who walk with us— have asked “what’s the difference between seeking peace and joy and seeking happiness? Well I’ll get to that in a minute. I’ll start by saying even if I communicate it perfectly (lol right?) I will always defer to whatever definitions you choose. After all this this thing we use—language is not an exact science and just ask Pluto neither. Is science.
Take for example the Sentence Yesterday I read the paper, but today I’m going to read a magazine. Okay that’s one example, however not the one I thought about first. That word is “tablet.”
You see very early each morning I get a little water or other moisture in my mouth and take a little bit of medicine and it’s called a tablet. Then there’s this thing I’m writing on right now. I’ve been known to have a big mouth and to consume my share (and your share) of liquids at some points in my life, but the odds of me swallowing a Kindle or iPad by mouth once a day are pretty slim. Of course, I could get all biblical and reinforce this difficulty in swallowing tablets. After all some folks have difficulty with any sort of moral code. Some people Wish they could see the Ten Commandments in their original. Stone format and complain about how w2e don’t have written history of many things in the distant past. I, for one, would love to have a transcript of what the native tribes thought after the first Thanksgiving Dinner. Unfortunately there is no written evidence that these kind warriors went back to their. Villages looking through the ads to see what Black Friday sales they just couldn’t wait to line up for at 4 A.M. the next morning. Anyway back to tablets. today is the birthday of Noah Webster the dictionary guy. Imagine if he or other lexographers (sp) —I should look up how to spell that—would have had to work in stone tablets. Spelling Bee winners would have been the strongest people in the village just from page turning. It woulda have taken a fitness freak to write “the Grapes of. Wrath” or “war and Peace.” I can imagine young Levi telling his parents. “I’ve going to go out back and lift the cows awhile so that I can read “the Catcher in the Rye” next summer.
Alright, alright that’s enough—back to the whole Peace and Joy/Happiness question. For me happiness is a temporary fleeing emotional state when we ignore our challenges and focus on the reaching of one destination. Along our path. We celebrate happiness knowing that it will not last. Don’t get me wrong happiness is great and I wish all the happiness in the world for each of you. Peace, however is a sender of being in the right place at the right time and doing your best with all the gifts you have or are growing. Peace is deeper than. Happy and it requires things that happiness does not. Peace requires forgiveness and acceptance. Peace requires patience. Happiness for me does not require these things. Joy is not quite the same as happiness either. Joy is a look you can see in someone else’s eyes. Joy is not a destination—it comes from not needing a map because. You trust your compass. Happiness can be share3ds with others, but joy is an attitude.you can impact others with re3gardless of the outcome of happiness for yourself or others I think happiness is on the spectrum of joy.
Again... this is just my definition, I hope it makes some sense.
That’s about all I’m going to put on my tablet about this because my hammer and chisel need some repairs. Rock on
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