If you are like me I enjoy being around joyful people. I enjoy spending time with them. My wife is an example of joy for me. Whenever our daughters come home for a visit she joyfully greets them at the door. She can be speaking on the phone with a family member or friend and suddenly I hear a hearty laugh. When we attend mass at church, she smiles at those in attendance.
We encounter a beautiful thing when we enter into healing. Jose was traveling from village to village with 6 others in his group. I would have loved to discover them along the road because being around Jose generated an encounter with joy. This whole group was filled with joy. The question is why are they filled with joy? What is it about Jose that fills them with that joy?
For me, we so often hear about our Recovery and healing experience. But for me, healing happens every time we encounter healing in a support group, therapy session, reading a self-help book, during meditation, and others in my plan of Recovery. Each time we encounter healing it changes us. Look at the people following Jose in the story. Each person in the group has their own experience of Recovery.
Some of these people were free from addiction, others from childhood trauma, and whatever possessed or enslaved them they were freed by the power of Recovery. This is why they were so joyful that they traveled with Jose. We can see that the group’s direct interaction with Jose changed them profoundly.
Now at times we may be overwhelmed with anxiety in our lives and don’t have the joy expressed in our daily lives. When our focus and faith are built on the reality of healing this is what brings joy into our lives. Faith is not the absence of suffering. When we face our suffering and work through it faith guides us to the other side where joy resides. Every day is an opportunity to be filled with joy because no matter how bad each day may be or how much suffering we endure healing is available to us, this gives us joy.
SuperHuman Being
Peace
Larry
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