Happy Happy Joy Joy

I love a good party

a reason to celebrate,

 to get the girls together and laugh loudly

and NYE that is exactly what we did.

Dinner with a few of my nearest and dearest friends.

It was wonderful and in the middle of it I found myself stopping to capture the feeling of joy, storing it away in my heart

savouring the wonderfulness of it all.

This Year i choose to be happy. To live in JOY.

Joy

That is my word for this year.

JOY

noun

1. the emotion of great delight or happiness caused by something exceptionally good or satisfying; keen pleasure; elation: She felt the joy of seeing her son's success.

2. a source or cause of keen pleasure or delight; something or someone greatly valued or appreciated: Her prose style is a pure joy.

3. the expression or display of glad feeling; festive gaiety.

4. a state of happiness or felicity.

Everyday I am choosing to take delight in my world. I have been stirred to do this of late. Everything seems to be pointing in that direction for me. But that is how God works isnt it. When he speaks to us, a reoccurring theme surrounds us till we get the message... we for me anyway, i need it to be LOUD AND CLEAR.

 Heres how im Joying in my world.

First and foremost I am ensuring I get time to read the word. I have it on my phone and have been using the devotion app now for awhile. Its great. Anywhere anytime i have the bible with me. If i have 5 mins spare I can open it and read. Kids playing nicely, open the bible. soak, read, get inspired.

I have downloaded the One thousand gifts app to my phone. This allows me to take photos of the gifts in my world and store it away. 1000 moments of gratefulness, moments of seeing God at work in my world.

Heres a pic from yesterday:

Beautiful trinkets to brighten my day.

I am reading Pockets of Happiness an ebook by Naomi Ellis.

Its is like she has tapped into my pondering and answered all my questions.

Having seven children I am sure she has walked the mumma path before me. Experience is a good teacher.

Its good, I promise.

Each week I am setting our children a character focus.

This week is Kindness.

We are learning about and practicing kindness.

next week: gratefulness

I am choosing to wear nice pjs to bed.

A small act for my husband as I am known to crawl into bed in old undies and a singlet. But I kind figured it was time to be a bit more... Im not sure what the word is but its time anyway.

 Joy is something we choose,

choose to see the good,

choose to soak in God

choose.

Im choosing.

WEZA xxx