JOYS AND SORROWS
When you THINK BACK
About your life=REMINISCE=
Don't you find
That your life is a MIXTURE
Of ups and downs?
A mixture of JOYS
And sorrows=
Jesus' life=was no different
“And Jesus said to them=
'Thus it is written
That the CHRIST=would suffer
And RISE from the dead
On the third day........'”
Luke 24:26
Jesus SHARED fully
In the human life=
In both
The JOYS and the sorrows
But Jesus' final experience
Of life was JOY=
He rose from the dead
Suffering and crucifixion
Gave way to the RESURRECTION
And this resurrection
Brought an ECSTATIC JOY
To Jesus' life
A life that would last FOREVER=
FINDING the joys in life
“Fill my heart
With JOY=
When their grain
And new wine abound”
Psalm 4:7
“The prospect
Of the righteous=is JOY
But the hopes of the wicked
Come to nothing”
Proverbs 10:28
“Gladness and JOY
Will overtake them
And sorrow and sighing
Will fall away”
Isaiah 51:11
Jesus' life=after sorrow
Wound up in JOY
And Jesus told us
That what happened to him
Would happen to us
That he was
GOING to PREPARE
A place for us
So that where he was
We would also BE
“And if I go
And PREPARE a place
For you
I will come back
And take you=to be with me
That you also may be
WHERE I am”
John 14:3
Yes=after much sorrow
In this life=like Jesus
We are DESTINED
To live and SHARE in
Jesus' resurrected life
Our joy will be
No longer partial or TEMPORARY
But will be ecstatic and ETERNAL
Just like Jesus
“Though you have=NOT seen him
You love him
And even though
You do not see him now
You believe in him
And are filled
With an inexpressible and GLORIOUS JOY
For you are receiving
The end result
Of your faith=
The salvation of your souls”
1 Peter 1:8
My dear friends=
We may EXPERIENCE
Some sorrow in this life
But when this life is over
We can look forward to
SPENDING ETERNAL JOY
With Jesus and the HOLY FATHER GOD!
In Jesus' name
Robert P. Wallman
4-17-2021
Ps INSPIRED by an article in LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE by Fr.
Kenneth E. Grabner, C.S.C.
