It’s Friday! Today will be my 1st attempt to link
up and try something out of the ordinary—it’s 5 Minute Friday. So after my
brief (or not) rambling introduction, I’m going to try to pour out my heart for
5 minutes on the topic of “joy.” Oddly enough, I almost got out of bed last
night and wrote a post about joy before I knew about 5MF. Ultimately, I decided
that my bed was warm, my laptop was in the kitchen, and I was lazy. Before I
get started, and before you read it, can you do something for me? Go meet Sara.
You can thank me later.
I’m still new in the blog world and I like to hop around and
read different blogs. Reading tons of posts really helps me be me. Sometimes I
can read a snippet of something and my brain just takes off in a completely
different direction. If I were better and more disciplined at putting my
thoughts on paper/computer screen, I could come up with a pages-long post most
days. But I’m not there yet. Anyway, I digress. I’m a bit addicted to Twitter
and a couple of days ago I kept seeing tweets about Sara. Everyone was praying
for her, cheering her on, and just gathering together for her. It piqued my
curiosity and I found her. And I’m so glad I did. Please take a few minutes, or
hours, or days to read her story, bookmark her blog, and pray for her. In honor of Sara, I choose joy.
And my 5 minutes begins…now.
I have never given much thought to the difference in
happiness and joy, until now. Now this is not a scientific or expert opinion, I’m
not even consulting the dictionary for accurate definitions. If I did, I might find
that I was off the mark with my thoughts, and that just won’t work for 5MF. To
me, happiness is how you feel about what is going on around you. It’s about
your situation, your family, your job, your life in general. Being happy, well,
sometimes that takes work. You can be happy or you can choose to be happy,
despite your situation. But it isn’t easy. I have tried. Sometimes, your
situation just brings you down, no matter what you try to do or think. But joy
is different. Joy comes from what is going on inside of you, not what’s going
on outside of you. Joy is a reflection of your heart. True joy comes from
knowing your Creator and your Savior; from knowing that you have something
better waiting for you. Joy is the direct result of the choice you make to fill
your heart with God. Happiness comes and goes, but joy remains with you, just
like God. When He fills your life, He brings joy with Him. And He comes to
stay.
So that's it. 5 minutes of writing, not too much editing, just writing. And since I still have an empty space in my brain when it comes to formatting and all things that make blogs pretty, if you see a weird something on here that doesn't make sense, just ignore it. I'm *trying* to link up and stick a 5MF button on my page. If you see it and it looks normal, you can safely assume that the empty space in my brain is shrinking, even if ever so slowly. If not, just say "bless her heart" and pray that someday, I will get it.
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