Contagious Joy
This past weekend I was blessed to spend a day and half with over 13,000 woman. That's right ... I said blessed. I attended the Women of Faith Conference at the Excel Center in St. Paul with about 50 ladies from Luverne UMC and surrounding churches. We took a bus, stayed in a hotel, and it was a blast.
The theme of the event was Contagious Joy .... and being at the event made joy absolutley contagious. We laughed, we cried, we pondered, we worshipped ... I still am and will be for days to come as things continue to seep out from the depths of my soul.
Shouldn't joy be something that we consider contagious?? Shouldn't we spread joy to as many people as we can?? So why is it then that I often find myself trying to keep joy in a tiny box as if to take NyQuil to sleep it off like when I get a cold. When joy should be contagious, infectious, bellylaughing, dancing before Jesus kind of a thing ..... and yet sometimes .... I end up sucking the joy right out of myself. I need more joy breaks in my life.
At the Conference, one of the speakers mentioned that "life is dissapointing" ... did you know that? It is a fact, everything isn't always sunshine and roses girls now is it? So then what ... do we just decide that life sucks and we should just take it because life is a big huge disappointment ..............
The speaker also mentioned, that she takes joys breaks, giggles breaks along the way in the midst of all of life's dissapointments we need to look for the little things that bring us joy. I am joyful for friends today .... for new friends from the trip, for friends that God has blessed me with across the MN Annual Conference through the work I do, for my Luverne UMC girls who know me best and love me anyway, and for old friends ... who share my heart, pure, deep, & true. I am joyful today for new life in our church ... for little girls dancing in the aisle before their Jesus. For how God is working in my life and bringing me into something new even though it is hard and painful ... it is joyful and I know it is His call as all I can do is simply surrender and follow. I am joyful for my babies .... who are young men and for my husband who even though doesn't quite get-it-all most of the time just "goes with it" and lets me do my thing.
Satan doesn't like joy much. Paul tells us to consider it joy for trials in our life for it is then we walk as Jesus walked. Jesus took giggle breaks ... you can count on it.
Live well, laugh often, love much ......... be contagious in your walk this week.
Tired .... but Blessed Today.
Be God's,
Lori
The theme of the event was Contagious Joy .... and being at the event made joy absolutley contagious. We laughed, we cried, we pondered, we worshipped ... I still am and will be for days to come as things continue to seep out from the depths of my soul.
Shouldn't joy be something that we consider contagious?? Shouldn't we spread joy to as many people as we can?? So why is it then that I often find myself trying to keep joy in a tiny box as if to take NyQuil to sleep it off like when I get a cold. When joy should be contagious, infectious, bellylaughing, dancing before Jesus kind of a thing ..... and yet sometimes .... I end up sucking the joy right out of myself. I need more joy breaks in my life.
At the Conference, one of the speakers mentioned that "life is dissapointing" ... did you know that? It is a fact, everything isn't always sunshine and roses girls now is it? So then what ... do we just decide that life sucks and we should just take it because life is a big huge disappointment ..............
The speaker also mentioned, that she takes joys breaks, giggles breaks along the way in the midst of all of life's dissapointments we need to look for the little things that bring us joy. I am joyful for friends today .... for new friends from the trip, for friends that God has blessed me with across the MN Annual Conference through the work I do, for my Luverne UMC girls who know me best and love me anyway, and for old friends ... who share my heart, pure, deep, & true. I am joyful today for new life in our church ... for little girls dancing in the aisle before their Jesus. For how God is working in my life and bringing me into something new even though it is hard and painful ... it is joyful and I know it is His call as all I can do is simply surrender and follow. I am joyful for my babies .... who are young men and for my husband who even though doesn't quite get-it-all most of the time just "goes with it" and lets me do my thing.
Satan doesn't like joy much. Paul tells us to consider it joy for trials in our life for it is then we walk as Jesus walked. Jesus took giggle breaks ... you can count on it.
Live well, laugh often, love much ......... be contagious in your walk this week.
Tired .... but Blessed Today.
Be God's,
Lori
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