Find your joy, the ad promised. The word stood out, seeing as it is Joy week. But somehow "As Seen on TV" gifts from Walgreens did not really take my understanding of the word to a deeper level.
Perhaps this week will hold something a little more than than. Hopefully, anyway. Or I'm going to spend the week crying on the couch.
Here's our passages for this week:
Isaiah 35
Psalm 30
Philippians 1
John 16
Matthew 2
And the preschool definition of Joy? "Hooray! Jesus loves us!"
"What do you want to be when you grow up?"
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Last spring, I helped in an after school program at a church for a couple
afternoons; a fun, crazy experience, and it stretched more than my legs,
that's ...
1 thoughts anyone?:
I almost missed Joy this week, in my stress to get everything done and everyone lined out.
I think sometimes we think Joy has to be thrilling, happy, bright and gay to be authentic. I'm learning that Joy can be finding the last pair of clean socks in time to get to church decently. Joy can be a school board meeting moved up, and a quiet evening at home as a result.
I'm getting less critical of how I find Joy, and more discerning as to what it really is.
I'm praying Joy will come knocking with a basket of wonderment and you'll find it.
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