Experiencing Joyfulness
Betsy,
I appreciated this newsletter about Joyfulness. It reminded me of a time when everything was going wrong, but I had great love for what I was doing. I was working on a huge exterior mural and it rained! I arrived at the wall and was looking forward to seeing the mural being beautiful and just as I had left it..... and what I saw instead was long streaking lines, ruining the image! I remember that I loved the image so much that my heart opened to the situation – instead of closing around it or feeling upset. And that was for me an experience of feeling an unusual sense of joy – at a time when I knew I would be justified in feeling upset. To feel this way when times are really awful, is to have a heart of gold.
I wish I could say I felt this more often! What a lesson!
Sherry Buckner, Artist Olympia, WA