Thursday, April 11, 2013

Day 676/55 - Joy

Well, gee.  It's been, what, 24 days since I last blogged.  So much for blogging every day!

Ahh well.  Onward.

Lately I've been thinking about joy.  Not happiness necessarily, but joy.  Two Thursdays in a row now I've heard great quotes about joy.  Maybe someone's trying to get my attention.  

Here they are:

"We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try. I didn't always know this, and am happy I lived long enough to find it out."

- Roger Ebert

“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”

- Abraham Lincoln 

Both are timely after a long gloomy week of rain rain rain.  

Then again, I haven't worn my coat in a week, and our lawn is greening up.  Some random flowers came up in our flower bed, and the day lilies are slowly making their way up too.

Ahh joy!