Those who meet Jesus always experience either joy or its opposites, either foretastes of Heaven or foretastes of Hell. Not everyone who meets Jesus is pleased, and not everyone is happy, but everyone is shocked.

“Prayer is easier than we think. we want to think it is too hard or too high and…”

“Only because a bird doesn't swim in the ocean but flies in the air can it enter…”

“The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing…”

“One moment of prayer, of weak worship, confused contrition, tepid thanksgiving,…”