How Joy Was Found

This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design. How Joy Was Found is an allegorical fantasy rooted in Scottish folk tradition, where a simple quest unfolds into a luminous meditation on faith, longing, and the soul's search for its true home. On the Green Isle and among the hills of Argyllshire, the radiant Big Young Hero, the weary Climber, and Finn the restless seeker move through a dreamlike world where ordinary acts become spiritual trials and every companion embodies a virtue or danger of the heart. As the journey gathers force, symbolic figures appear in turn: Duty as the Carpenter, Obedience as the Tracker, Constancy as the Gripper, Love as the Thief, Hope as the Listener, and Truth as the Marksman. Together they help Finn seek "the one that considers me," while the Climber's visions of violets, spring, and hidden divine presence reveal that heaven is not escape but fulfillment. Yet the path is shadowed by hunger, sleep, fear, and temptation, as Finn struggles to keep watch over a vulnerable child and resist bodily appetite. Lyric, strange, and deeply spiritual, the tale asks how joy is found when faith, love, duty, and truth are finally brought into harmony.