very true. it's a Christian trait to be joyful--a rare thing today!
Yet it's rarity can be one of the things that make it so valuable.
Even if the "happy" people don't really even know WHERE the value is coming from.
Though for some people I have to say; being "happy" at all would actually be a step forward! 
I was helping repair a shower cartrige at a place, while the inhabitince of the house were watching on TV a woman preacher who was teaching people(in a rather forceful and masculine manner) how to be truly happy. She said unhappy people are unhappy because they aren't doing what God wants them to do, and she talked about how she was so unhappy in her early christian life, but has now found peace because she had found her place in life(preaching on TV). I couldn't help but wonder how this woman, being so horribly out of place in her own life, could possibly be happy. After quickly looking up "Joy" and "Happy" in the 1828 dictionary, there is a startling difference, as you pointed out. Wow. It never really occoured to me. So, I suppose that searing your conscience is one way to make you happy, As I am sure that woman preacher did just that.
Amen David! I should have posted the different definitions. I might still do that, when I'm feeling better.
See, while the Christians were being dipped in boiling tar, they may not have had happiness, but they certainly had a spirit of Joy.
Rich...
Huh?
Deep. 
Heh, well, it's too bad that most people seriously would consider that 'deep'.
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