Positively Positive

Happy Thursday! There once was a time in my life when everything was awesome and the sun came up everyday just for me to have another day of fun and money grew on trees and everyone was nice and there was not one thing wrong in my world. That was not yesterday, nor the day before, though if there is a money tree around I call dibs! No, this was me as a small child. As a child I was so greatly naive, not just to the good things in my life like my constant loving parents or the home I lived in, but also blind to the negativity of the world, to terrorism, to bullies, to slavery and torture, to stealing, to getting lost, to abuse, to sin, etc. I knew right from wrong, when it came to going to a friends, or eating more cake. But beyond that, my world was perfect, or so I thought.

Honestly, I can't imagine being a child again! My life today, perfect. Yesterday? Perfect. Today I am hanging out with family, and my newest nephew Andrew, he is just over a week old. When you hold a baby and he falls asleep in your arms, you know all is right in your world at the moment. All the bad horrible things that seem so huge and problematic fade away. You are lost in the here and now, and how perfect and unique this small creation of God's is.

There is not a single day for as far back as I can remember that I didn't laugh. At some point every day, God has brought something into my life that always makes me giggle. Sometimes it is when I am having a bad day, sometimes when my day is awesome and I have laughed a hundred times already, sometimes over the same thing! Or sometimes when I want to be mad or am feeling sorry for myself, then He will put someone in my face or have an event occur, or photo arise that just makes me giggle so hard I can't control the joy rolling down my cheeks. Those are moments I love. 

The only thing I love more than laughing is making others laugh, even if it is at me instead of with me. :) If I just fell and busted my face on the floor, you let that chuckle escape. If I just told the coolest joke ever, that was only funny because of how lame it was, let your belly jiggle! If I tease you, slap that leg. Just let it out! Joy should be overflowing when we are blessed with a Savior and Father as awesome as our God! 😃

 

"Rejoice in the Lord always, and again I say rejoice!" ~Philippians 4:4

"Until now, you have asked nothing in My name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full." ~John 16:24

"Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Spirit." ~Romans 15:13