Walking the Passage: I Come From Laughter... November 21, 2013 ... What joy really looks like.. The Joy Challenge..

Thursday, November 21, 2013

I Come From Laughter... November 21, 2013 ... What joy really looks like.. The Joy Challenge..

Joy isn't fluff.

Joy isn't necessarily giddy, and laughter, and play...

Joy is a substantial force for which I am grateful....

Joy arrives as an opportunity ..

Joy arrives as a choice...

Joy arrives and says risk choosing me again and again and again...

I look at joy and say YES.. Yes, I will risk upon you again, Yes, I will let you touch my heart.. yes, I will let you be my strength... I will let you be my song...

Joy isn't because anything is going right or well.. Joy just is...

1) Joy today is 21 years of marriage... good, bad, great and ugly.. but 21 years together none the less... it is 21 years ... I have been married for as many years as I wasn't... Joy is walking along side someone who has seen you at your best and your worst and is still willing to take the next step...

2)Listening to my husband read to me.. FAVORITE past time and not so past time... I love his voice

3)I touched joy today when I paused and caught my breathe, looked up at the sky and saw it was blue..

4)Joy is knowing that you have friends that can see your house a complete mess .. that can see you a complete mess...

5) Joy is a nap

6) Joy is a shower

7) Joy is seeing the heart of God for someone else

8)Joy is the color orange (and purple)

9) Joy is the promise that lo He is with me always

10) Joy is a warm house

11)Joy is comfy PJs

12) Joy is the unexpected pleasure of a friend just dropping by

13) Joy is having shoes

14) Joy is eating popcorn

15) Joy is seeing the woods and going for a walk

16) Joy is simple homework that I can help with

17) Joy is my husband letting me warm my cold feet up against his leg

18)Joy is watching Greg and Lizzie play with ornaments and letting them...

19) Joy is playing legos

20) Joy is encountering deer that are so familiar with human beings that they barely look up and acknowledge me.. yes, we have probably close to 10 deer that wander around our house on any given day and don't run away immediately when we come out or our dog barks... pretty crazy

21) Joy is realizing I could learn a lot from those deer....

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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.