Simply JOY

I like simple things. Sometimes I like being domestic. I just well up with JOY when I cook something complicated, or when I make some kind of craft. I like cloudy days that promise rain. Curling up on the couch with a good book and a roaring fire is a simple JOY. I like romance novels. The cynic in me says "That's not real." but the romantic in me hopes that it can be. I like quiet evenings at home. Hot cocoa, popcorn, and a movie with my daughter. I like laying on my back outside watching cumulus clouds. I like forgetting my cell phone once in awhile and being unreachable. I like long road trips. I like getting lost sometimes (but not too lost). I like time spent with the Lord.

In our current society it's easy to be swept up in the pandemonium that is life. It's easy to be too busy and too tired to find simple JOY. I'm certainly guilty of that. One thing I love, it happened last night, is long talks with my daughter. God is certainly good and faithful. He promises us JOY and if we look, we can have it. I'm tired of waiting for the right time. I'm tired of working myself ragged for later. If I die tomorrow, I want my daughter to know that I had JOY. I had exactly what God promised me. What are things that you have in your life that bring you JOY?

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*The Jesus Loving Princess*

*Blessed are you when men hate you, when they exclude you and insult you and reject your name as evil, because of the Son of Man. Luke 6:22 *