Having True Joy

When picking up my 3yr old granddaughter Maddie from Preschool the other day, I was informed by the teacher that she had just returned from a Trip to the "Office"! Maddie looked at me and said "NaNa It was a BIG Problem"! Evidently she was not nice to a classmate on the playground. We went back to the playground before leaving school and she apologized to the other child and he replied "That's OK Maddie"! I thought how quick children are to forgive one another! In the car on the way home we had a discussion about what happened and what she should have done. Maddie quickly replied "Even when I do something wrong God still Loves Me"! I coulnt help but think how she didn't even have to think about it. She just knows that God loves her! That is JOY!
Have you ever wondered why we have not been able to find the miraculous, fulfilling JOY the Bible talks about? Maybe we are looking for JOY in all the wrong places.
If you believe JOY comes from a college education, a spotless home,or well-behaved children you have it all wrong. If you think that losing 27.5 pounds or marrying the person of your dreams, or having a passport with far-away places will give you a money back guarantee to a perfect JOY.... then again you are wrong!
There is only ONE PLACE and one place only......"In His Presence is Fullness of JOY!"
How can you do this?? Well it's not difficult. You choose to make it a priority to spend time reading your Bible everyday. You can listen to a Worship CD in your car or at home to start the day. If you are very BOLD you can lift your hands in the air as an act of surrender while you worship(Just not while driving:)! Spend time in prayer just you and Jesus. You have the best friend ever to walk through the day with you. What is the name of your new BFF? You can simply call this friend JOY!
Today read Psalms 16

Devotion from Youversion Bible app.

Favorite Food List

As a parent I remember how hard it was to get my son Matt to try different foods! He was a very picky eater. Most of the time if we didn't have something he liked for dinner he would just ask for a "Peanut Butter Sandwich". Rather than go through the Drama every nite of Forcing him to eat green veggies I gave in(by the way I don't like those little green mushy peas! To this day I gag when I look at them).
Now that Matt is a father of two he is faced with the same problem. All though he does eat better now! How can you make your children eat food you will not eat?
When My Daughter-in-law Crystal showed me Sammy's list today I started thinking how many times we tried to trick him to get him to try new things. We would put a Big Gob of green baby food on a spoon, smile and say "Ummm this is good"!  Have you ever tasted baby food? It is NOT good!
He was only fooled into trying it once!! It came right back out! After that his little mouth was sealed! We couldn't get him to try anything else.
Sammy is 6 now and his list of Favorite food has 7 foods on it! Wow that's good! He is adding a food every year! I love that "Carrots made the Number 5 spot! That's right in case you couldn't tell that it Carr-etts! It was confirmed by Mom! The C is silent!
I can't wait to see Maddie's list! I'm sure her list will have at least 5 different fruit on it :)

Disappearing Socks

It's always been a mystery to me how you can put 5 "pairs" of socks in the Dryer and only get 4 1/2 back!
Where do the socks go? And why is it only "New" socks that get lost! Like the special pair that you got for Christmas and Love to wear because they are soft and warm!
Put them in the Dryer and only one comes back!!
A friend told me once to put all the socks in a mesh bag and dry them together! What? A bag of Socks! Do you wash them all together too?  I can't imagine saying " I have to go home to wash a "load" of  socks!  How many socks would you have to wash to make a load? And you would have to wash Whites in one load and Colored in another!  That's a lot of work for SOCKS!! I do know that the other half of the lost sock usually ends up tucked in a corner of the sock drawer hoping for the return of the lost one! When the sock doesn't return, eventually, the odd socks are finally retired and thrown out! Just another one of "Life's Unsolved  Mysteries"!
Please share your thoughts and suggestions on this important topic! Have a Good one? :)