Joy
Fri, Nov 21
|Trinity United Church
Joy to the world! All ye folks of the world, Joy to the fishes and the deep blue sea, Joy to you and me! The fullness of joy is to behold God in everything. — Julian of Norwich
Time & Location
Nov 21, 2025, 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Trinity United Church, 1099 Maitland Ave, Ottawa, ON K2C 2B8, Canada
About the event
We are blessed by the gift of Joy. We live in a world that so readily demonstrates reason to not find joy - homelessness, war, greed, poverty - we all have our reactions to these things. And yet we find Joy. For it is a route to love (which is the centre of all balanced dualities). Joy is an expression of Love. And Love is what matters, it is what holds us up. So find your blessing, find your Joy and let it hold you up!
With blessings of Joy to you all, Linda and Kimberly.
REFLECTION
Defiant Joy by Brian McLaren
MUSIC
Joy by Beautiful Chorus
Pure Joy by Chris deBurgh
Joy by Andy Grammer
Joy Shall Come in the Morning
Ode to Joy Flash Mob in Germany
Joy to the World by Three Dog Night (I couldn't resist ~editor)
QUOTATIONS ON JOY
From joy I came, For joy I live, and in Thy sacred joy I shall melt again.
— Paramahamsa Yogananda
Joy is an intermezzo of gratitude that interrupts the routine motion of life.
— Lewis B. Smedes
The atom's soul is nothing but energy. Spirit blazes in the dullest clay. The life of every man — the heart of it — is pure and holy joy.
— George Leonard
This silent ability to impart to others the light of Divine Intelligence, and all its attendant qualities of joy, warmth, insight, and revelation, is captured in a Sufi phrase, "the smiling forehead." For illumination is always linked with a kind of smile, like the mysterious, lingering smile of the Buddha.
— Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan
These quotes and other resources on Joy (and other spiritual practices) are available on the website Spirituality and Practice. https://www.spiritualityandpractice.com/practices/alphabet/view/17/joy