YOUR PAIN WILL TURN INTO JOY

Friday of the Sixth Week of Easter Year C John 16:20-23 “No one will take your joy from you.” Where is your joy? What is your joy? Who is the foundation of your joy? There is always stress in life but it’s always your choice whether you let it affect you or not. The gospel for today is the continuation of yesterday’s goodnews. Still we are reminded that we will have pain but our pain will be turned into joy. Using a mother in labor is a metaphor to suffering. “But when her child is born, she no longer remembers the anguish because of the joy of having brought a human being into the world.” Friends, joy is the concrete and vivid sign of the presence of God. Nobody can take it away from us. Our enemy the devil will make all the possibilities to make our life miserable and lonely but if our joy is anchored in and with Jesus, victory is ours. Again I say to you: “No one will take your joy from you.” True joy cannot be found in pleasures like sex, drugs, travels, alcohol or in buying. You know what, money, fame, prestige can’t provide ultimate joy. ONLY JESUS! Today be a joyous person. Carry that joy and spread it like a virus. Blessings Fr. Jhack