While studying Advent I stumbled across this quote by Matt Tullos and fell in love with it! " Happiness is an emotion that can disappear as quickly as it rises to the surface. Joy, however, is a choice." Choosing joy is not just a way to go through life, it is the way of the Savior. Nehemiah 8:10 says that the joy of The Lord is our strength. Christmas can be a season of love, hope, peace and joy. However, for some, joy doesn't come easy during this season. It can be a time of year where sadness, grief or loneliness are intensified by all the " Christmassy" things going on around you. As a single mom it is very easy to get wrapped up in the negative feelings that can come during time of year. Maybe you work so hard to pay all the bill, provide food & clothing for your kids, but there isn't enough money left for that one special gift you desperately want to get for them. Maybe you have to split the holidays and that means your home will be dead silent on Christmas day because the pitter- patter of your little's feet will be heard at your exs house this year. Maybe you skip the office Christmas party because you just find it to hard to go alone. The things of this world will quickly tie us down if we doesn't keep our eyes fixed on Jesus! This Christmas season I'm inviting you to Choose Joy! Choose Joy when the lines are long and the nights are short. Choose Joy when your heart is heavy and your mind is full. Choose Joy in the darkness, the loneliness and remember that there is a great Joy in our Heavenly Savior, who came from heaven to be born of a virgin and ultimately to give his life so that we may never know a world without Him. But the angel said to them, " Do not be afraid. I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all people. Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord. Luke 2:10-11 I am wishing you many blessing this Christmas, but above all I wish that you find Joy in Jesus and his many blessings! Merry Christmas from our family to yours!
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