Joy is a gift.

Let the sunrise of your love end our dark night.
    Break through our clouded dawn again!
    Only you can satisfy our hearts,
    filling us with songs of joy to the end of our days.
Psalm 90:14 The Passion Translation

To all who mourn in Israel he will give: beauty for ashes; joy instead of mourning; praise instead of heaviness.
For God has planted them like strong and graceful oaks for his own glory. Isaiah 61:3 Living Bible

Joy is the realest reality, the fullest life, and joy is always given, never grasped.
God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given: joy.
Ann Voskamp

Joy is a choice.

This is the day the Lord has made.
We will rejoice and be glad in it. Psalm 118:24

I choose joy. I will invite my God to be the God of circumstance.
I will refuse the temptation to be cynical… the tool of the lazy thinker.
I will refuse to see people as anything less than human beings, created by God.
I will refuse to see any problem as anything less than an opportunity to see God.
Max Lucado

Joy is astonishing.

You have not seen Christ, but still you love him. You can’t see him now, but you believe in him.
You are filled with a wonderful and heavenly joy that cannot be explained. 1 Peter 1:8 Easy-to-Read Version

“Life doesn’t have to be perfect to be filled with joy.”
Anonymous

“Joy is the serious business of heaven.” (C. S. Lewis)

Joy is for now and forever.

Because of you, I know the path of life,
    as I taste the fullness of joy in your presence.
    At your right side I experience divine pleasures forevermore!
Psalm 16:11 The Passion Translation

May the Lord continually bless you with heaven’s blessings as well as with human joys.
Psalm 128:5 Living Bible