Confession: I’ve been listening to Christmas music for a few weeks now🤷🏻♀️, oops. I mean I reallllllly have. Normally I’m the keep-the-Thanks-in-Thanksgiving type of girl and don’t listen to any Christmas music until after Thanksgiving day, but this year since I’ve been working on my Christmas Cards to sell at Fleastyle I’ve been blasting it! (You’ll be able to purchase them on WMHStudio soon!🎄)
And you know what? I’ve loved it. When I realized that joy was the next on the Fruits of the Spirit list I immediately thought about the Christmas music and how so much joy surrounds that time of year. The dictionary defines joy as a feeling of great pleasure and happiness, but most of us know that JOY itself is much more than just a feeling. When I think of joy, as I have been these days, I feel it is much more tangible than a feeling. It’s contagious, it’s deep, it something that is born in you, and something that can’t be faked (like happiness).
Season of Simplicity: Joy
The Bible is full of verses of joy and so today I chose to pull out some powerful and well-known verses to make these memory scripture cards on Joy. Of course, I had to include some Christmas in them (so they can last you til the end of the year!) because as we inevitably head towards Christmas and all that fun we can remember the real joy that surrounds that time of year.
Click on the image below, print these guys out, cut them, and place them in any place you might want to add a little joy!
Take some time today to dwell on joy and the times that you have felt truly joyful in your heart. Part of being thankful is also being joyful and satisfied. It’s easy to dismiss joy, but I think that it’s not as fleeting as being happy… it runs deeper than that. So, dwell on times that you have felt deep joy and then either write them down (as I like to) or simply meditate on them as a way to be thankful.
Enjoy (<— juuust now noticing that lol!)!
