Sometimes....
Sometimes the joy from our lives leaves.
The sunshine keeps shining, and the summer continues.... kids splash in the water, laughter
continues but not yours.
Days continue - almost on without you. And the lack of joy almost paints everything grey - as if
nothing is important anymore without the sometime you lost.
Have you felt this way before? Have you lost something great or small? If you have, you know
how I feel.
But then sometimes that joy returns.
You keep walking, keep moving through the grey - sunshine nagging days. One step at a time,
one single day at a time, believing, hoping, trusting that things will get better.
Things we lose never can be replaced but there is a deep something in Life that can never be
taken. And that something is the Giver of Joy.
It is a beautiful thing when in the stepping - trusting - that joy returns.
Here, in the midst of pain, we find a wholesome joy - because - we realize that we can have it in the midst of our reality - it never left us - we just forgot that it is not conditional.
Thank-you Jesus for Joy.
Real Joy.
When you settle into it in the reality of life it is a beautiful gift- because it holds the promise that it can never be taken away.
Thank-you Jesus for Joy and Thank-you Jesus that I can hope for Bigger things too! I'm glad that joy protects me and supports me in my hoping.
Sometimes the joy from our lives leaves.
The sunshine keeps shining, and the summer continues.... kids splash in the water, laughter
continues but not yours.
Days continue - almost on without you. And the lack of joy almost paints everything grey - as if
nothing is important anymore without the sometime you lost.
Have you felt this way before? Have you lost something great or small? If you have, you know
how I feel.
But then sometimes that joy returns.
You keep walking, keep moving through the grey - sunshine nagging days. One step at a time,
one single day at a time, believing, hoping, trusting that things will get better.
Things we lose never can be replaced but there is a deep something in Life that can never be
taken. And that something is the Giver of Joy.
It is a beautiful thing when in the stepping - trusting - that joy returns.
Here, in the midst of pain, we find a wholesome joy - because - we realize that we can have it in the midst of our reality - it never left us - we just forgot that it is not conditional.
Thank-you Jesus for Joy.
Real Joy.
When you settle into it in the reality of life it is a beautiful gift- because it holds the promise that it can never be taken away.
Thank-you Jesus for Joy and Thank-you Jesus that I can hope for Bigger things too! I'm glad that joy protects me and supports me in my hoping.
Beauty from ashes. Life from dust. We have been formed out of these exact situations. Father is so faithful to supply us with strength (joy) and even grow us in the midst of desert seasons. Just rest and He'll push you forward.
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