Breaking Barriers-taking a step toward joy
Many of us can agree that happiness can be seemingly fleeting and short-lived because, especially as we age, it can get harder due to the natural order. We may experience more illness, more physical pain with aging, financial difficulties, children flying the coup, and more trials due to aging parents etc. There are lots of potentially hard things to muscle through. There is a great book called “Living Joy” by Chris Stefanick, where he gives tangible ways to experience and cultivate a joyful life….which he describes as different from happiness in that you can suffer in situations but still have underlying joy. It occurred to me today that despite tools and steps, that joy can still escape us. Ultimately, he explains that joy is found in believing three fundamental facts about Jesus and living accordingly. My revelation today was that joy is buried deep in each of us…planted there by God. Just as faith can be easy to find in children, I think the same is true for joy. Children do ...