October 14, 2024
In this week’s episode I begin to talk about my experience on
the Camino de Santiago in Spain and some of the aha’s I discovered along the
way! The biggest and most surprising was joy! We will walk through what joy is
and reflect on what keeps us from experiencing joy in our lives.
Our listening portion:
Dear Child of God, you are loved with a love that nothing can
shake, a love that loved you long before you were created, a love that will be
there long after everything has disappeared. You are precious, with a
preciousness that is totally quite immeasurable. And God wants you to be like
God. Filled with life and goodness and laughter—and joy.
God, who is forever pouring out God’s whole being from all
eternity, wants you to flourish. God wants you to be filled with joy and
excitement and ever longing to be able to find what is so beautiful in God’s
creation: the compassion of so many, the caring, the sharing. And God says,
Please, my child, help me. Help me to spread love and laughter and joy and
compassion. And you know what, my child? As you do this—hey, presto—you
discover joy. Joy, which you had not sought, comes as the gift, as almost the
reward for this non-self-regarding caring for others.
Archbishop Desmund Tutu, The Book of Joy
