There’s one outstanding emotion that has, on some varied moments, touched me most deeply. And I wish a similar happening of emotional insight for all of us. Some of you may have achieved regular satisfaction from your work or enjoyed your everyday family life whenever possible.
Yet there is an often unexpected and sudden emotion that can change your life and perspective on it, for a surprising period. It is the totally embracing feeling of joy, which is a sudden gift to your whole being. And it comes from your own heart and mind.
Here’s one example that’s common in a family’s history: the birth of a child. Personally, I can instantly recall some years back seeing a newborn baby who’d been slow to emerge from the womb, being carried in his beaming father’s arms from the delivery room to the newborns’ intensive care unit where nurses awaited. A new life at its very start, a new generation, bringing instant joy to its parents and everyone else involved with that family! Too often, many of us forget to consider the different ways to adapt to some of our life changes.
What for one person is just another burden of responsibility, can present for someone else, a time for embracing a new outlook on your own life. However, the realities which many people are currently living through involve worrying issues of social unrest, lack of housing, food scarcity and unexpected upheaval in their personal lives. That’s why it’s even more important that we allow ourselves whate.
