The God of Joy David Lamb, in his new, thoughtful must-read, The Emotions of God: Making Sense of a God Who Hates, Weeps, and Loves, expounds on the emotions of God in the Bible. One of the emotions of God is joy, but the Bible shows a God of many emotions.
“Joy defined looks like this: ‘a deep feeling or condition of happiness or contentment’ and when we think of joy we think of ‘pleasure, happiness, and delight.’ Extreme joy is ecstasy. Sorrow leads to weeping, joy leads to singing.”
This made me think of “gratitude@ as explained in Diana Butler Bass’ writing. A JOY that overcomes someone, beyond expectations. Sometimes our facial expressions, or lack there-of, betray “The Force” (Star Wats style) we are feeling.
God, The Force, doesn’t just dish it out, but God also feels it! Spiritual physics!
The joy of we feel from this book, partially vicariously, through Scot, leads us us to want to actually read the book! The reverb/tsunami of emotions - that essence of the emotion that bounces out and hits those in it’s path. What does it do to consider emotions that volley back and forth across spiritual space, between and through God and creation?
“Joy defined looks like this: ‘a deep feeling or condition of happiness or contentment’ and when we think of joy we think of ‘pleasure, happiness, and delight.’ Extreme joy is ecstasy. Sorrow leads to weeping, joy leads to singing.”
This made me think of “gratitude@ as explained in Diana Butler Bass’ writing. A JOY that overcomes someone, beyond expectations. Sometimes our facial expressions, or lack there-of, betray “The Force” (Star Wats style) we are feeling.
God, The Force, doesn’t just dish it out, but God also feels it! Spiritual physics!
The joy of we feel from this book, partially vicariously, through Scot, leads us us to want to actually read the book! The reverb/tsunami of emotions - that essence of the emotion that bounces out and hits those in it’s path. What does it do to consider emotions that volley back and forth across spiritual space, between and through God and creation?