"Do it with joy."
It was the phrase I heard in the stillness one early morning
as I got myself ready for the day.
Do it with joy?
Whether it's a perfectly ordinary day
or a day that's up-side-down?
Whether it's a day filled with bad news
or the need to make a hard decision?
or the need to make a hard decision?
Whether it's facing the same old, same old?
The dentist's chair?
A new situation that makes me feel so, so uncomfortable?
Yes! Yes!
For, as I have been discovering...
When I choose joy over anxiety,
joy over feeling despondent,
joy when I'd rather disappear and not face the situation,
joy even when I'm tired and w-e-a-r-y of heart
Making the choice to go about our days in the spirit of joy will shift things
in our hearts which somehow shifts the atmosphere around us!
When I choose joy over anxiety,
joy over feeling despondent,
joy when I'd rather disappear and not face the situation,
joy even when I'm tired and w-e-a-r-y of heart
...whenever Joy arrives she brings her strong companion, Strength.
And with that strength comes a growing confidence that
I can pull my shoulders back and face whatever 'it' is
because this affliction - thankfully - too shall pass.
I can pull my shoulders back and face whatever 'it' is
because this affliction - thankfully - too shall pass.
So today, I invite you to join me, and in whatever you must do,
choose to do it with joy....
choose to do it with joy....
