Joy :: Something Beautiful for God

Hi everyone, I hope you're having a great weekend so far. Today is such a nice day to take the kids out to the park and play. I haven't done this for so long now, spending Saturday with my niece and nephew was such a a blessing for me.

The word for today is joy. My heart is filled with joy today, seeing my niece and nephew having a fun time gives me joy. The joy of blue skies, the joy of life, the joy of swings, the joy of laughter, the joy of air, and of lustrous light of day.

Joy is prayer, joy is strength, joy is love, joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. God loves a cheerful giver. She gives most who gives with joy. The best way to show our gratitude to God and the people is to accept everything with joy. A joyful heart is the normal result of a heart burning with love. Never let anything so fill you with sorrow as to make you forget the joy of Christ Risen.

We all long for heaven where God is, but we have it in our power to be in heaven with Him right now, to be happy with Him at this every moment. But being happy with Him now means:

loving as He loves,

helping as He helps,

giving as He gives,

serving as He serves,

rescuing as He rescues,

being with Him twenty-four hours,

touching Him in His distressing disguise.

~ Mother Teresa