Happiness vs Joy
Joy: We experience joy when we achieve selflessness to the point of personal sacrifice.
"SURPRISED BY JOY":JOY IN THE CHRISTIAN LIFEAND IN CHRISTIAN SCHOLARSHIP david m. howard, jr. a professor of the Old Testament says: "He (Lewis) sharply distinguishes “Joy” from happiness or pleasure, whichare much more oriented to the immediate, to gratifications of various types,most of them instant, ephemeral, and, in the end, not satisfying over a longterm. “Joy” only shares with them the fact that it is something intensely tobe desired. He states that “I doubt whether anyone who has ever tasted[Joy] would ever, if both were within his power, exchange it for all the plea-sures in the world.”11 Further, “Joy is distinct not only from pleasure ingeneral but even from aesthetic pleasure. It must have the stab, the pang,the inconsolable longing.
For Lewis, “Joy” was essentially what in German is called Sehnsucht, an ardent de-sire or wistful longing, sometimes with a hint of nostalgia.
