life of joy

[sabrinamari]

How do you write about joy?

I mean, how do you express, in words, what it's like to feel it?  I love words, and I love to write, but there are times when words fall short, times when I can't seem to pull them together to express the tenderness, gratitude and happiness that fill my heart.  This is one of those times.

I went to the FoV Keeper's Retreat this weekend, and for me, it was an experience in opening up to joy and love.  The other Keepers were there in all their authentic beauty: their pain, their pleasure, their sadness, their light: whatever it was they were living out in that very moment.  They offered it all up unselfishly, with loving hearts.

And most amazingly, I was offered the chance to give and receive joy from one person who just makes my soul sing.  It was an experience so sweet it almost takes my breath away.  Simply the opportunity to experience this opened me up further than I have in years.  It was frightening, it was awesome, it was sweet---it was unbelievably good.  I can't even begin to describe it, really.  To receive such a gift is indescribable.

My heart is filled with gratitude, admiration, and love.

And when I returned home, my beautiful man embraced me with strong arms, kissed me, and told me how much he loved me.  Listening to me try and describe this weekend, his eyes filled with tenderness at the joy I had experienced.  He was so happy for me...so pleased that I was experiencing joy and bringing the fruits of that experience back to him, in the form of a heart made stronger, larger, and far more capable of loving him deeply.

Comments

[rio-luna.livejournal.com]

beams!

[evilbunny.livejournal.com]

I think you described your joy pretty well.

I am very happy for you!

[angiedub.livejournal.com]

Anyone who has experienced joy knows what you mean. If you try to describe the sensations, sometimes others mistake the sensations for the emotions. We know they aren't the same thing. This was fine!

[wgseligman.livejournal.com]

The way you describe FoV experience, the way the web site describes FoV, and the way Orien describes FoV seem so different. Your description being the most compelling to me, with authenticity being such an important goal.

Maybe when we're all in one place in two weeks, we can compare and contrast.

[sabrinamari.livejournal.com]

I think there's more than one authentic experience of FoV. For me, it cracks me open and invites me to pull up my deepest heart, healing the cracks that haven't yet been touched.

Sometimes, that is painful, sometimes it is glorious, and sometimes it's both.

But everyone has their own story, and each story is equally important.