(May 27, 2016 at 12:54 pm)quip Wrote:(May 27, 2016 at 12:47 pm)Drich Wrote: Same type of experience, different source.
It's the difference between a battery powered device and a solar powered one.
All emotional states are dependent upon circumstance.
One can't have perpetual joy without necessary, interceding sorrow...sorrow is what gives joy its flavor, they're both necessarily integrative and transient.
I beg to differ. Love is the chief of all emotion. If you love say, your child with all that you are, is there anything that child can do, or this world can do to him change that love? This emotion is independent of circumstance.
If for you the answer is yes, know that the majority of humanity would answer with a no.
You again are describing Happiness. Happiness is indeed dependent on circumstance. But, Joy like love has nothing to do with circumstance, as It is a gift from God. one that God fuels and provides for those through the Holy Spirit.. Joy is a 'fruit' or one of the evidences of the Holy Spirit.
