August 19, 2012

  • Joy

    Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. ~ — Henri Nouwen

     

    It's a simple thought, very straight forward in many ways, but it's like many of those simple ideas that turn out to be more complicated than we imagine. It is also just another variation of other thoughts, but if what I know of myself is true of most people, it takes repetition to get through this thick skull of mine. The basics never change. Even when we keep looking for more elaborate, complicated, "profound", raining down upon us from heaven, concepts. It's the basics that count, the details we tend to overlook, that truly change who we are.

    "What you think, you become."

    What you choose to think, is the path you have chosen.