A God of Joy?

Did not David dance before the Lord with all his might? A Bible, which is full of happy battle cries—Rejoice in the Lord! make a joyful noise unto him! Give thanks unto the Lord, for his mercy endureth!—a Bible, which exhausts its splendid wealth of rhetoric to make us understand that the coming life is a life of joy, no more threatens to make nuns than mutes of us. I expect that you will hear some of Roy's very old jokes, see the sparkle in his eye, listen to his laughing voice, lighten up the happy days as glee fully as you may choose.