From Ernest Holmes – Journey Into Life
We must enter into the joy of life if we expect the joy of life to enter us.
Life has intended us to be glad. There is always a song when we know how to sing it. And always a joy if we can find it.
Life is not meant to be sad, dreary, forlorn, or hopeless. It is not meant to be a funeral service. It is meant to be a grand and sublime song of praise, a proclamation of Joy, through the acceptance of happiness and wholeness in God.
God is happy, and if we wish to draw happiness into our experience, we must first unify ourselves with the happiness and the joy than God is.
How can we believe in a weeping universe or a sad God or a Melancholy First cause? Such concepts contradict the fundamental necessity of reality, God is a synonym for wholeness.
A person filled with joy must lavish it on others, he must share it with them. In this way he multiplies his own happiness.
We should live each day as though it were complete and perfect within itself. We should live each day as though all the joy in the universe were ours now. We should live each day as though all the joy in the universe were ours now.