JOY

I love the beach. Love the ocean. For me it is instant peace and serenity. It doesn't matter what may be going on but being at the beach brings me to the feet of Jesus, to sit at His feet and to hear HIS voice. 

Over the last year with the onset and then treatment of Mike's cancer, I have found myself evaluating my values and priorities . Looking at my God given values and passions that make me who I am. One of those values is JOY. What brings JOY to my life is the Lord, and yet it is not only through knowing that HE loves me and cares for me, but through nature and creativity that I experience HIS JOY. This pure Joy that permeates my being and fills me up to overflowing. Nature, painting, taking pictures, being outside working in the dirt, being at the beach brings me right into the arms of my CREATOR and JOY abounds within my soul. I have always known I love being outside, but living such a busy life, I was not intentional about bringing more of these times of JOY with God into my life, but enjoyed them as they presented themselves. I am intentional now...on a regular basis, in fact everyday bringing these JOY filled experiences to my life, if it only means being out in my garden pulling weeds. I have always been a happy person, and loved life....but now I feel that I am living it to the FULL!