Pio's Proverb 155: JOY from the Holy Spirit: What is it and how does it come?

Dearest you,

I have a sense of "something more wonderful" than I can explain in words; but need to share it nonetheless so that you can be encouraged because God only gives consolations for the good of the community not just for individuals alone. This is like "Peace" - a mystical "infused contemplative" experience:

It all started subtley by the Spirit by giving me a "subjective" (present-emotional-reliving) memory that is not like an "objective" memory that is merely a recalling to mind a past event. A "subjective" memory (from the understanding of Jacques Maritain's "Existence and Existent") is one that we will all have in heaven when we "re-experience" a loving event - as if we were really there again!

Well, that is how my Joy from the Spirit began: a joy that came to  me over the re-living memry of a past even that was most loving and joyful in itself: a very happy and loving event. Then the memory goes away; and only the Joy remains - by itself - sustained by the Holy Spirit, Himself as a gift of grace: the Fruit of the Holy Spirit.

Still, there was something that proceded the Joyful memory and sustained Joy by the Spirit. It was a deep understanding and realization and conviction that God the Father is loving me. Now, the new dimension is added: that the then past joyful/loving memory WAS God LOVING me THEN in that past event and is NOW loving me just as much. It was God's LOVE that caused the past loving joyful event; and it God who is telling me that His LOVE for there for me in that EVENT even though I did not know it at the TIME but God wants me to know now that HE was THERE - He was loving me there - and is loving me now. This all pervasive LOVE is wonderful beyond telling.

As a summary, this I wrote this in my journal 15 minutes ago:

"JOY is an unexplained feeling that can begin with a memory of joy over a past event. Then that event is removed; and only the joy remains as God has initiated an experince of joy and happiness that also follows a certainty of being love by God.  So, first comes a deep understanding of a 'present in-love-ness between you and God' --- Then God reveals one of His most joyful events in your life to show you now what God's love was for you then.  Then there is a joyful convicton of being so loved by God - a closeness to the Father - like Enoch felt for God, his Father."

Father, You continue to surprise me every day with something new about You! Prayer is ongoing all day long with us because it is merely Your grace to me of my bieng open to Your Love, the Holy Spirit! What an adventure is being with You, Father!

"I will give thanks to You, Lord, with all my heart..because You have heard the words of my...heart." Psalm: 138.

Peace and Love and Joy,

Pio xo