Just a thank you for your submission of 2/23/13 - it was such a comfort and so edifying when I read it on Sunday afternoon 2/24/13 - it fed my yearning heart to be reminded of His outstanding work of love, "for the joy that was set before Him"!  He is all joy!  Oh how He loves us!

Paraphrasing/quoting Father George F. Rutler of Church of Our Saviour in Manhattan, New York:  "Happiness is a feeling while joy is a fact - the fact is Jesus The Christ - Creator and Lord of All - He is all joy and true happiness which will never fade."  Amen