Application #2 for what we have learned about pleasure...

Application #2: Pleasure is a means, not an end. Joy should be the greater end 

      –Joy is the fulfillment that comes from a relationship that breathes  contentment in being and is not dependant on just doing
      – Joy will dim or be broken if they are not nourished by and do not point to the greatest relationship of all – with God

That is why, when pleasure has gone, it either leaves behind honour or dishonour, joy or sorrow.

If we were to look carefully at which pleasures bring joy and which pleasures diminish it,

We would discover that every genuine and enduring pleasure is tied somehow into a relationship that also has a moral commitment

"The Lost Chord" is a song composed by Arthur Sullivan in 1877 --

Seated one day at the organ,
I was weary and ill at ease,
And my fingers wandered idly
Over the noisy keys.

I know not what I was playing,
Or what I was dreaming then;
But I struck one chord of music,
Like the sound of a great Amen.

It flooded the crimson twilight,
Like the close of an angel's psalm,
And it lay on my fevered spirit
With a touch of infinite calm.

It quieted pain and sorrow,
Like love overcoming strife;
It seemed the harmonious echo
From our discordant life.

It linked all perplexèd meanings
Into one perfect peace,
And trembled away into silence
As if it were loth to cease.

I have sought, but I seek it vainly,
That one lost chord divine,
Which came from the soul of the organ,
And entered into mine.

It may be that death's bright angel
Will speak in that chord again,
It may be that only in Heav'n
I shall hear that grand Amen.
G. K. Chesterton’s Orthodoxy - Joy in knowing Christ
He points out that for the Christian, joy is central and sorrow is peripheral. This is because life’s fundamental questions are answered and only the peripheral ones are not. But for the one who does not know Christ,
sorrow is central and joy peripheral because peripheral questions may be answered but the fundamental ones are not.