“If we are going to experience joy in this lifetime, there’s only one possible way: we will have to choose it. We will have to choose it in spite of unbelievable circumstances. We will have to choose it in the middle of a situation that seems too hard to bear. We will have to choose it even if our worst nightmare comes true.” Kay Warren
I look up to Kay Warren. She faced her worst nightmare - the suicide of her son - and went on to write a book about choosing joy. I thought I understood joy - but in 2018, I have learned about joy on a new level as I have faced a stage 4 cancer diagnosis. What I have seen again and again this year is that joy is such a powerful weapon against anything that satan tries to throw at us!
We can focus on fear, wondering and worrying about how life will all work out - or we can thank God for the incredible blessings that He has given, and we can trust that He has our lives in His hands.
I am overwhelmed with all the kind birthday greetings. Thank you so much - you’ve made this day even better! But if there is anything I want people to know or remember about me, it is that I pointed them towards the one and only source of joy and strength - Immanuel, God with us!!
“Let all that I am praise the Lord; with my whole heart, I will praise His holy name. Let all that I am praise the Lord; may I never forget the good things He does for me.” Psalms 103:1-2
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