OUT...UP...& INTO JOY!!

JOY... Hmm a strong theme in Philippians. Funny thing is the apostle Paul is suppossed to have written the letter while he was imprisoned in Ephesus...hmm he didnt write it froma comfortable vestry or office or hotel room but from a prison.

It's hard sometimes to rejoice but its a mandate of christianity, if I'm a follower of the gospel (good news) how can i not rejoice?

Of course it takes a while sometimes for your heart to catch up with what your head knows.

I cant say that everything is perfect and dandy...in fact i dont know if they ever will be. But right now I'm comfortable in the moment and comfortable with reaching for joy. Like anything else in my chirstian life i need grace to take me to my goal. So my goal is to have me some JOY and REJOICE, and Father it is only your grace that will get me to that place and space.

I feel i'm makeing my way there surely and while i'm walking to JOY I'll try and skip, hop and leap every now and again. But I'm satisfied just to know that in all our pains and prisons and trials and temptations...you offer a way of escape not just out of our suffering but UP & INTO JOY!!

THANK YOU, JESUS!!