Sometimes, you learn something new and it seemingly changes everything.

That’s how I felt when I was deepening my understanding of Joy last advent season.

We often look at joy as ‘joy vs happiness’. Perhaps we have all been told the classics that ‘happiness is surface level and joy is deeper’, or ‘true joy only found in Christ’. Perhaps we’ve been told that ‘happiness is skin deep while joy is felt in our soul’. Or maybe the two have been used interchangeably throughout your life. My prior understanding of Joy had been this, pulled from the pages of an advent resource I made years ago…