The Longing Secret of Joy

I doubt whether anyone who has tasted it would ever, if both were in their power, exchange it for all the pleasures in the world. A grief better than other delights, a golden unhappiness. The Father used this inconsolable longing to make known to me the path of life. To accept with David that in your presence there is fullness of joy. At your right hand there are pleasures forevermore. I was made for another world, another deity. Joy itself did not reveal God to me but she kept me groping after more than this earth.