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The Backdoor to Joy
What is joy? How do you define it? People wonder all the time what joy is. How do you get it? How do you keep it? We try to figure out what will give us joy and happiness. Usually that means I’ll do what I want, when I want, That’s My Prerogative, and you’re not the boss of me. Or as Frank Sinatra sang, I Did It My Way. Is doing it our way the formula for joy, for happiness? No, because if it was, we’d all be doing that. The proof’s in the pudding, right? If living life the way we want brought us real and sustainable joy, we’d…
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How has God Built You?
This is the second of 7 blogs on releasing your creative potential. Psalm 139:13-14 For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. God has made each of us unique. Special. One of a kind. Each of us has something no one else has. And each of us has something the world needs.
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From an Infinite Well
The problem with gifts is we always want more. We seem to be wired this way from an early age. Even if we got the gift we wanted for our birthday, it wasn’t too long until we wanted the next thing. Then we grow up, and we think we’re beyond this. Yet, every gift we receives seems to have a built-in time limit, an expiration date past which we receive increasingly diminished amounts of joy. The gifts of good relationships and friendships hold up better, but how often do we expect more from our relationships? No matter how much is given, it’s never quite enough.
