Rejoice Even Though Facing the Challenges to Joy
Joy is “a feeling of great pleasure and happiness.” It’s the emotion we feel when life is good — when the sun is shining, when our team is winning, when we are healthy, happy, and heartened. Most people do not typically speak of the happiness of heartbreak, the pleasure of migraines, or the bliss of losing. Philippians is the most joyful book in the Bible — the apostle Paul uses the Greek words for joy and rejoicing sixteen times in only 104 verses. And yet he writes from a d
Learn How To Use Joy As Your Compass!
I was meditating recently and, as often happens, my mind kept processing my “To Do” list for the day. I was feeling dragged down and distracted by all the things on my agenda when I heard the voice of my inner guidance. It said, “Use joy as your compass to navigate life.” You know it’s intuition when you get one of those “aha” moments that says a lot in one sentence! So I thought you’d find it interesting to hear how I’ve applied this wisdom. In many ways, the “using joy as y
