Some of the happenings I have not lived through before.
As for today, I will choose to be joyful and hopeful.
Joyful because why not be joyful? Joyfulness is not over-rated.
Hopeful in the notion that tomorrow is a new day, a new beginning.
I will try to be joyful. And despite how difficult it can be, I’ll strive to be patient.
One day earlier this week, my word of the day was faithfulness. So I focused on the above verse {Romans 12:12}. And that very day one of my friends sent out a tweet saying, “today I will. . . ” and proceeded to list out the verse. The Amplified Bible version says, “Rejoice and exult in hope; be steadfast and patient in suffering and tribulation; be constant in prayer.” I like that: be constant in prayer.
Since I’ve been [in the midst], it’s been good to be constant in prayer. I don’t stop everything, sit down in my closet, focusing for hours on praying. But I do, throughout the day, think thoughts to God. It’s not an entering in, exiting, then coming back. It’s more of an all the time, always present kind of thing.
As I await news regarding jobs and finances and school choices and a few other things, I am trying to be “cheerfully expectant” (The Message).
Cheerfully expectant beats grumpily anxious all to heck.
Upon a Sunny Day 