is joy a feeling?
is joy knowledge?
it seems so easily shattered.
emerging from morning prayer
galvinized to serve.
not exactly ‘full of joy’
but struggling,
praying that the Lord may fill one’s heart with
expressions of joy
sometimes joy feels hard-earned
though one knows it comes by grace
yet all it takes is the wrong side of bed
my mum telling me i need to go out to run errands
and so cannot stay home to do
the things i felt galvanized to do
that’s all it takes, to shatter the joy
perhaps fragile joy isn’t authentic joy.
Hear Our Praises 