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Happpy New Year!

January 01, 2010

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I resolve to start posting on my blog again.
Thanks for not giving up on me!

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Christi said…

yeah!! i've missed your posts.

January 3, 2010 at 9:47 PM

Consider it Pure Joy?

“Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds…” James 1:2 I have a difficult time swallowing this one. After I read this scripture with great enthusiasm, I than consider the circumstance I am currently experiencing and things don’t seem so joyful. The verse gets easily forgotten as I move toward a more palatable scripture, “Do not plot harm against your neighbor, who lives trustfully near you.” Proverbs 3:29. No harm plotting here, unless you count the fact that I wait for my neighbor to take out her trash so that I can relive our bursting trash receptacle via her nearly empty trash can. Joy is an interesting emotion. Although I would consider myself someone who has joy in their life most often, I know how easily my joy can be stolen. Ultimately my joy is fickle and often connected to my circumstances. However, as a Christ follower, my joy should never coincide with circumstances and should be ever present because God loves me, my sins are forgiven, and I a...

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