There is Joy every day:)

Last night my sister and I went to Taco Bell, our favorite spot this summer:). And it was my turn to drive and so routine in our family is the person in the passenger seat checks the bag to make sure we have everything. Well Clarissa never does that and I wouldn't even expect it and we were like half way home and she checked it and we realized oh dads food isn't in here. Uh oh I decided we should probably go back. She kept asking me if I was mad and I really wasn't just because I don't expect everyone else to act and think the exact same way as me or do things the way I would. I just said well more quality time together now and really just laughed it off. I have just realized it is so much more fun for you and others that if you are bitter or upset or cranky it sucks! It is so much more enjoyable to find the joy and the positive! Ugh I don't want to wake up early but then I get to do this and go to bed sooner, hopefully:). Why is the car going so slow?!?! Well it slows down up ahead anyways so now I am slowed down ahead of time! Obviously these are all small things I have pointed out but I have found in life it's the little things that cause people to have a lot of anger and bitterness build up and make bigger things happen. Jesus found joy in the hard and easy things. Well I just wanted some alone time but all these people followed me up here and now I get to bless them. And in those things God will bless you. 

Working at day camp there are so many times I feel like it would be easier to just sit there and let the kids do whatever they want and not care what they feel like or want or anything! But instead to pour into then and love them when they are hurting or having issues at home or anything like that. It isn't always the easy things but it is the things that will bless you the most. Have an eternal perspective to how it will benefit the kingdom and bless others and fill Gods mission. If you claim to know and believe in God but aren't loving others what is it? It isn't the proof of how God has changed us or how we love Him! Find the joy not the pain. Look to the light and let it speak into you and not just others. You are not a complete book yet not will you ever be we are all still in need of God and His strength and power and ability to change us!