Faith Venture

It’s way easier to be negative, sarcastic, and cynical. It’s much harder to be hopeful, positive, and proactive.

Everywhere we look, we see words meant to instill fear, uncertainty, and doubt.

That is the easy thing for media to write. Mainstream media and influencers alike. It generates likes and views.

It is much harder to analyze the good with the bad. The think of hopeful, positive, and proactive.

People are cynical. Oh, but think about the many people you know who are kind. Who will carry a bag for you, open a door, smile and say Hi.

Many good people exist. Also many good and helpful services to which we can contribute.

Should we find ourselves mired in negativity and fear, we can take small steps to change. We can change our information sources. We can look for just one positive thing in the next person we meet. We can notice beauty. We can take one step toward generosity.

True, real joy always comes to us only as a present. It originates in God. Human joy is a share through grace in the joy of God, in God’s nature, which is nothing but the sphere of supreme joy. The sources of true joy, therefore, are found where the creature waits for God.—Ladislaus Boros.

Joy must be differentiated from pleasure. It is deeper and more lasting. 

Joy also differentiates from happiness, something transient, nice while it’s here, sad when it wafts away.