I was reading an email that arrived in my inbox this morning and this paragraph stood out to me.
“My experience tells me that uptight people can never really experience joy. People who have everything screwed down real tight can never learn to dance. People who are not at peace with themselves, people who carry around the baggage of past hurts and failures, people who look at the world through the narrow lens of their own self-interest, people who just plain don’t like themselves or others, can never really discover the hilarity the Gospel promises.”
For me, my joyless days usually come when I am overly focused on my own agenda, just trying to get stuff done. Any of these things keeping you experiencing true joy?
The paragraph continues…
“Only those who let go and discover the deep peace which comes in knowing we are loved simply because God chooses to accept and love us, can know the freedom of laughter.”
Here’s to a joyful day! (You can find the whole message here.)