Walking the Passage: I come from Laughter...November 6 .. Day 6 of the Joy Challenge...

Wednesday, November 6, 2013

I come from Laughter...November 6 .. Day 6 of the Joy Challenge...

I love quotes, pictures, art, words, expression... I love creativity and ingenuity and laughter...

Today I hold these things up as if they are confetti and I throw them up into the air and dance around them as they fall to the ground... Today it is JOY.. Living... Experimenting.. Entering... JOY... Today it is looking at the physical realities of the day and the social realities of the day and choosing JOY just BECAUSE!

The choice towards joy .....

1) Quiet and simple moments sitting in my car. Watching leaves fall to the ground. Watching the beautiful sky and clouds and blues and greens and oranges and reds swirl around me.. Today it is JOY..
2)Connecting with the college kid and wearing a Clemson sweatshirt in a Virginia Tech town just because I can...
3)My husband making me peanut butter toast on pumpernickel bread.
4)Receiving kind words from an unexpected source
5)Walking... I realized today how much I take for granted and when things are gone or change they are gone and changed... so today as I walked upon the sidewalk I thought about the joy of the fact that I can see, and hear, and touch, and walk.. And that that is a joyous thing
6)This.. writing... intermingling with people... having people in my life and being in the lives of others...(Lizzie and I have plans to make a hopscotch path when she gets home from school today... )

Joy in the small, seemingly inconsequential moments.... joy is a powerhouse of a choice... hard to turn towards at times ... sometimes I want to silence that voice in my heart that arises time after time and says be joyful.. be intentional to be joyful.... sometimes the realities of the day seem to choke out joy... BUT then I am learning to close my eyes, breath, and choose joy anyway.. maybe not right away and maybe it takes a whole day to cycle back around...

Cycle back around anyway...

Bless you..

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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.