Tuesday, September 25, 2001

Pure Joy

There are times in our lives when everything comes together in a chemical reaction of joy. Not in the sense that we need chemicals to reach that point, and I know lots of people who do need that. All good, we get our joys different ways, babies. Some of us get high, some of us just do our thang, and it flows. Pure and sweet it floats into your heart and mind, takes you to a higher level where you are swimming in bliss. Then when you come back down, you are never the same. There is something uniquely different about you based on that one pure moment.

I don't know if I can extract one moment that can define the meaning of pure joy. Maybe it's that minute joy when someone calls you when you least expect it. Maybe it's that bliss of driving away from the auto mall with your very own car. Maybe it's that kiss, not just any kiss, but that Kiss, the one that wraps you up and sends you. There.

It's in the way that you feel the breeze across your body when you're lying on a hot beach. It's in the way you cross the finish line at the end of a run. It's in the way you receive that diploma. It's in the way that you sleep in the day after you've completed your life's mission, that deep sleep of the innocent, of one who has finished.

It's in the way that you see someone understanding where you're coming from. It's in teaching someone something new that helps them succeed in life. It's in saying and telling the truth behind the words 'I love you.' It's in the way he/she smiles and you know what it means. It's in the way your superiors look at you when you've done your job. It's in the way you make your dreams come true. It's in that glorious moment of reckoning, least expected and best deserved. That's the kinda bliss I'm talkin' about.

It's in watching your students graduate after four years of holding their hands. It's in helping someone read. It's in coaching a team that does well. It's in making your family proud, and it's being proud of them as well. I find pride in the eyes of my teachers, and its' that same look that I want to give to my students. It's the joy that a small piece of chocolate can give a child. It's the joy that a older person feels with a hug.

That's joy, pure joy, in the little things you do. It's not necessarily the big things, the marriage proposal, the raise, the bonus check, the closing of the escrow. But those things are cool, and I'm down, so down. It's the little big things that change your life profoundly whether or not you know it, and it's that pure joy that brings you the bliss that seek.

So your homework, my Voodoo babies, and I do give out homework, is for you to find the pure joy in your world, experience that pure joy and share it with others. Learn to recognize joy and be able to acknowledge the things that YOU do to share that with others. Learn to encourage joy as a sign of strength, not one of weakness. In this dark age we live in, and it is truly dark, my lovely babies, remember, that you need to create your light by which the world can once again shine. Others who see that light gravitate towards it, and learn to cast their own light. I know it sounds like a damn commercial, but you know I'm right, honies, yes you do. The Voodoo Queen does no wrong in this matter.

So bring me light, and bring me joy. And I, in turn, shall bring you yours.

Voodoo

posted by Voodoo Child @ 10:44:00 PM