Gladness

“Indeed there is enough gladness in the world for us all;

or, to speak more exactly, there is a fountain of Gladness in everybody’s heart only waiting to be unstopped.

Grown-up people sometimes say that they envy little children when they hear the Gladness bubbling out of their hearts in laughter, just as it bubbles out of birds in song;

but there is no room for regret; it is simply a case of a choked spring:

remove the rubbish, and Gladness will flow out of the weary heart as freely as out of the child’s.”

Charlotte Mason (vol 4, p131-132)