Thursday Again

Good morning my friends. As I sit here this morning I am just thinking on how truly blessed I am. I am currently sitting at a customers house that I get to pet/house sit for. They have three awesome dogs. Two very rowdy male Brittany’s and a sweet older gal just living her best life. It accrues to me this morning how blessed I really am. I got to go out and fish last night with my Dad in his boat and we caught some bluegills, a couple crappie, and a few bass. It was a great night with a beautiful view and great conversation. I then get to come here in the morning and play with dogs for a living. In all their rowdy and unruly ways these boys still show me what fun life can really be as they race circles around the yard and crazy speeds and can just gracefully dive around obstacles throughout the yard. They are so playful and joyful. I sometimes forget and lose my joyfulness but am learning to look around and find the little things in life that make it worth being so joyful. When I am feeling down I am learning to ask God to show me where the joy is in my situation. Every day is filled with blessings from above and we just have to look and teach ourselves to be grateful in those things. Joy is from Heaven and the kind of joy that is fruit of the spirit. With joy comes peace. A scripture I have been leaning on for months has been John 14:27 “I leave the gift of peace with you-my l peace. Not the kind of fragile peace given by the world, but my perfect peace. Don’t yield to fear or be troubled in your hearts-instead be courageous!” I have to read this often over me. That He- the great I Am- has left me his perfect peace. That He loves me so much that He knew I would need His peace because the earthly kind is not perfect and is oh so fragile. This went a little differently than I had planned but that’s okay. That’s the great thing about writing, sometimes you start out to go one place and then it ends up somewhere else but all wraps together nicely. So my friends I’ll leave you with this; pray above all else, find joy which will leave to gratitude and then to perfect peace. I hope this week is full of all the things above.

XO,

Becca