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Don’t postpone joy!

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For many of us, we don’t think we have time to do fun things. We have work or school, or kids, or a thousand other things that have to be done- we postpone the things that give us joy. We’ll do that craft, or read that book, or call your friends and invite them over for tea or a BBQ, or take that walk tomorrow.

Well, I hate to say it dear, but tomorrow may never come.

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Don’t Postpone The Restoration

Take a break, breathe, stop in that mad dash of life- in the end you won’t remember all those hours you put in on work, but you will remember that time you went to the beach, or made cookies with the kids, walked in the leaves or splashed in a puddle…

Breathe- life will still be there. But you will never have today again. Make time each day for something that gives you joy. Maybe it’s just a cup of coffee or a good book, Make time for it- even if it is just a few moments. I’m not saying not to work or not to be responsible. To live your life selfishly only for yourself, but take time to smell the roses. They smell pretty sweet and their blooms are here for such a short time.

Don’t Postpone The Healing

After my mother passed away I didn’t feel joy. I didn’t know how I would go on because my heart was so broken. I was a caretaker for mom as she got older but she lived with my family our entire marriage. It was a hard year that year. We had to say goodbye to two foster sons (one we had since birth) and another 2 1/2 year old that was such a part of the family too. Then with mom… It was just too much. I felt like I would never laugh again, never feel joy.

The girls were pushing me to go on a hiking trip to a waterfall in our state and I just kept saying no. I didn’t think that I could do that but the four of us packed up and went. The winding roads as we went through the mountains were so pretty, the trees so stately but I had such a heavy heart.

We got out of the car and started walking. We were in a drought and so the water was way down and we were surprised how low the river was up on the top of the falls. We took off our shoes and waded across the water and walked along the opposite shore on the rocks. We were able to go up toward the edge of the falls and look over. I sat there and looked down on this amazingly beautiful view. The spray of the water in the air made it misty and you could breathe in the moisture. A hawk circled below us in the mist, round and round it went as it rode the air. I sobbed and sobbed and sobbed. It was like heaving giant boulders off of my shoulders and out of my heart and down that great precipice.

I began praying on that mountaintop, I prayed and prayed and when I was done, I sang. I sang every song that came to my mind in worship of the one who created this beauty and peace flowed in. Peace in spite of the circumstances. Were my arms still empty of our sweet foster loves, yes. Was my sweet mother and dearest friend gone, yes. But I had walked into His great loving arms and allowed him to comfort me. To take away all of the pain and sorrow and for him to gift me joy in return.

Yet you do not know [the least thing] about what may happen in your life tomorrow. [What is secure in your life?] You are merely a vapor [like a puff of smoke or a wisp of steam from a cooking pot] that is visible for a little while and then vanishes [into thin air]. James 4:14 Amplified version

Don’t Postpone Joy