Can You Really Be Commanded to Be Happy?

Can you be commanded to be joyful? Isn't joy something that kind of comes and goes and depends upon circumstances typically out of our control? Well, everybody this second strangeness, the fact that we're being ordered by our gaudete sunday and ordered by paul, to be happy, signals the pathway to understanding the spiritual truth here. It is indeed the case that i'll call it now, the emotional state of contentment, feeling good, feeling up beat. But on this side of the divide with all these sort of passing emotional states, the joy we're talking about, the rejoicing we'retalking about, is something different than all that. Let's stay with the