Walking the Passage: I come from Laughter... November 1, 2013.. She thinks the orange smells more like a lemon.. No, this isn't some spiritual exercise happening early in the Driscoll household...

Friday, November 1, 2013

I come from Laughter... November 1, 2013.. She thinks the orange smells more like a lemon.. No, this isn't some spiritual exercise happening early in the Driscoll household...

The challenge to find joy....

Let November be a month were you find that joy comes in the morning....

Here is the Challenge....

For each day that is in November and corresponding to the number that is the date.. will be the number of intentional moments of joy that you must find within the 24 hours....

Now in these lower days you MAY and DEFINITELY should try to FIND and TAKE more... But let everyday in November be a journey further into JOY....

Journal about it... Whether it be list on your phone.. or in a journal... Grasp a hold of JOY and take pictures of those moments....

By November 30th you will see ever more that the JOY of the LORD IS INDEED your strength....

My November 1st moment of JOY.... I picked a really simple one to show that what I mean by joy filled moments can be small, intentionally filled moments of interaction and participation...

It started with Elizabeth walking into the room with a knife and an orange. I pulled her into me and showed her that a knife wasn't needed. We peeled it together. We smelled it.. She thinks the orange smells more like a lemon.. Hhhhmmm interesting... NOTE to self.. go to store and buy a lemon and cut them both up and let her compare...

Joy was the real fruit.. no, I didn't pick a fruit on purpose so that I could say that...

We also looked at the most majestic tree in our front yard.. It has erupted in color and both Greg and Lizzie love it....

When I enter into joy on purpose a life force enters my being... There is something about being intentional about joy that fills the soul...

1) Moment with Lizzie and an orange that smelled more like a lemon to her....

SHARE yours.... Can't wait for November 30th.... What a joy filled day that will be....

No comments:

Post a Comment

One of my Favorite Narnian Quotes...

“One word, Ma’am,” he said, coming back from the fire; limping because of the pain. “One word. All you’ve been saying is quite right, I shouldn’t wonder. I’m a chap who always liked to know the worst and then put the best face I can on it. So I won’t deny any of what you said, even so. Suppose we have only dreamed, or made up, all those things – trees and grass and sun and moon and stars and Aslan himself. Suppose we have. Then all I can say is that, in that case, the made-up things seem a good deal more important than the real ones. Suppose this black pit of a kingdom of yours is the only world. Well, it strikes me as a pretty poor one. And that’s a funny thing, when you come to think of it. We’re just babies making up a game, if you’re right. But four babies playing a game can make a play-world that makes you real world hollow. That’s why I’m going to stand by the play-world. I’m on Aslan’s side even if there isn’t any Narnia. So, thanking you kindly for our supper, if these two gentlemen and the young lady are ready, we’re leaving your court at once and setting out in the dark to spend our lives looking for the Overland.

A Brilliant Quote from Marianne Williamson

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate,

but that we are powerful beyond measure.

It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

We ask ourselves, "Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?"

Actually, who are you not to be?

You are a child of God.

Your playing small does not serve the world.

There is nothing enlightening about shrinking

so that others won't feel unsure around you.

We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.

It is not just in some of us; it is in every one.

As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.