"My Joy . . . Your Joy"

After today's reading, I was asking myself if I have this joy.  I don't fully understand this joy but I think I'm starting to understand it little more as I go through this life.  Forgive me if I offended you older guys :)  The difficulties that came in my life have proven to me that there is no true joy in them.  The true joy comes only when I'm in relationship with God.  I look at the life of Jesus Christ.  He did not have the 'worldly joy'.  He didn't even have a roof over his head and had to depend on God to provide everything.  Yet, He was joyful even when He knew what He had to endure in this world.  I thank God for some of the difficulties I had to face because they showed me the shortcomings of the idols which I tried to find joy in.