Tuesday, September 27, 2011

"Choose Joy"


By: Sara Frankl from her blog @ www.glitzengirl.blogspot.com (from October 10, 2010)
And then she asked the question that so many of you email and ask me:
“How do you manage to stay so positive? So happy? Don’t you ever just get really mad?”
I suppose the cop out answer, while true, is that I just don’t have the energy to be mad. Seriously. It takes so much effort and energy to wallow. And it’s not any fun. I live 99.8% of my time alone, and if anger was all I had to live with I would lose my mind.
I think, for me, it has been about learning to want what He wants for me more than what I want for myself.It's a tall order and I don't say that flippantly. But my joy has truly come from Him finding His joy in me rather than me finding my joy in what I desire. It doesn't mean I don't long for different, it just means I find peace in fulfilling rather than understanding. In the knowledge that this life isn’t about me, it’s about Him.
The thing I try to remind myself of, as I am without all the things that I wish I had to make me happy, is that my biggest need is Him. More than I need to be outside in the fresh air, more than I need to move without pain, more than I even need Dad... I need His will to be done in my life whether it is comfortable or not. There is not one thing that feels comfortable about my world right now, but I need Him more than I need to change my circumstances.
It's still brutally hard. I have to remind myself of these facts every day. It doesn’t always come easily.
But it doesn’t make the truth any less true.
And the truth is that I can choose the joy.
So I do.

Me: Shelley - I want what Sara talks about above. I want to Choose Joy! I need Jesus more than anything! 
May you be blessed by Sara Frankl and may her words challenge you in your faith. 

1 comment:

  1. Great words and so inspirational! Thanks for following! :)

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