Joy

Someone told me today that happiness is what brings us joy, but I think it can be said that it is joy that brings us happiness. Joy can be many things: the smile on a child's face, the completion of a hard-earned task, the feeling we get when we see the happiness we have brought others. Joy comes in many forms and for many reasons, yet for some, it seems like it is always beyond their reach. Maybe some people's expectations for joy are too high. More people will obtain joy if they only look for it right in front of them, in all the wonderful things around us that God has created. Joy doesn't have to exist in big things, it can be in the smallest of things as well.