"Sometimes I would like to ask God, why He allows poverty, famine and injustice in the world, when He could do something about it... but I'm afraid He might ask me the same question."
-Anonymous

Saturday, January 30, 2010

choosing joy

Joy is what makes life worth living, but for many joy seems hard to find. They complain that their lives are sorrowful and depressing. What then brings the joy we so much desire?

Are some people just lucky, while others have run out of luck?

Strange as it may sound, we can choose joy.

Two people can be part of the same event, but one may choose to live it quite differently than the other. One may choose to trust that what happened, painful as it may be, holds a promise. The other may choose despair and be destroyed by it.

What makes us human is precisely this freedom of choice.

Henri Nouwen
Bread for the Journey
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  1. Jim and AprilJanuary 30, 2010 at 12:05 PM

    i totally agree! Joy is not from what we're going through but how we handle what we're going through! Just look at all the amazing africans who have seen so much war, disease and death yet they rejoice probably way more than we do!

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