Mourning and joy

  Is a mournful attitude essentially wrong? And can you have one of those, but at the same time have joy? It is all right if I am not happy; my happiness is not of the utmost importance, although it can be had. Recently, I have had a somber mood. It seems that the more one learns about this earth and its peoples, the more hardness, evil, and hopelessness there is within it. There is what looks like happiness, but is said happiness the kind that is meaningful and lasts?

  I'd say that joy found in our fellow man is good, but we must not overlook the spiritual for that which we can see. Spiritually, I know that I can find joy in God. I also know that because the two greatest things for a man to do is to love God fully and man fully, it's not wrong to find joy in both.

  Yet I am sad; I have this joy, but I am also sad about the wrong done in this world. I know that people like to go their own ways and help themselves and those they've adopted to the cream of the crop. This leads to improper priorities; it leads to meaningless lives and deaths. I want all to know and follow my Lord; I wish all to see the goodness that the Lord does and is.

  I guess what I am trying to say is that I am constantly saddened by this world we are in, but receive joy from the eternal. This existence seems so sad, especially if there is no freedom from wrong; but there is, if one would only take it. Our stony hearts can be made new, if we would but trust in the eternal sacrifice of God in the flesh and turn from our wrongs.

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