This is the movement of the Holy Family, leading people to Jesus through friendship, good conversation and the Rosary.

So welcome to our Rosary meditation.

Let's begin in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Let's call to mind all those that we've promised to pray for,

especially for Terry Punzwick,

and for the healing of Olivia Caneli.

We were made for joy.

In fact, God designed us for joy. Joy is the response to something experienced as good and it

invites us to rest or delight in that good. You know with the first taste of hot black coffee in a warm

mug on a cold morning I experience joy. I take delight in its goodness, and then I rest or savor it.

We are made to have real joy and pleasure.

Now for this meditation, joy and pleasure,

it means the same thing.

And God is so good that he designed us

to have pleasure as a result or as a byproduct of doing

good things. So when we finish a job well done we have joy satisfaction pleasure

we have when we have good conversation with a friend we experience

satisfaction or sitting on a beach and watching the sunset while the tide

rolls in gives us joy. So joy is meant or pleasure is meant to be the fruit, the byproduct of doing something good.

But in our fallen state with our wounded human nature, we take this great setup by God that we do good and pleasure should come from it.

And we distort it, we pervert it and we seek pleasure but we seek

it divorced from the good thing. You know take pizza for example I love pizza.

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