I've Got My Joy Back: With God you can regain your joy, no matter how tough your circumstances may be. (0)

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C. "I'm ready for him to prove he was a great player way before the Celtics, he was a great player for the Celtics, and he'll be a great player after the Celtics," she says. During our conversation, Amber shares about finding parts of yourself wherever you are and bringing your full self to your community, how being a person of faith in the social justice movement helped her to create her own permission to be fully authentic, the importance of propagating joy in ourselves and with others as a means of flourishing, boundaries as self care and community care, and looking back to your childhood passions to foster true happiness in adulthood. Paul says that “if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved” (Rom 10:9). There it is again…joy means to shout… to shout praise to God and to have a deep and abiding trust in Him.

I can honestly say I am no longer worried about good news, and my happiness no longer depends on getting good news.For example, running may produce a "runner's high;" spending time with a baby releases oxytocin, the "cuddle hormone" that makes you feel connected. The past two years may have passed by slowly for him, but the NBA moves at warp speed, and it nearly left him behind. Some user-contributed text on this page is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. I try to distract myself with things that bring me fleeting joy — seeing my friends whom I don’t see enough of, trying to nail a new recipe or working on my handstand. Later that day, kneeling down at the washing machine, ruminating about I don’t even know what, it hit me: a full-body NO.

Now, you tell yourself a story about how it’s inappropriate to slack off or meander or read only the culture and technology sections of the newspaper. Remember what it was like to be a kid and totally immerse yourself in something, just because you loved to do it. I suppose it’s harder to be carefree when you’re heading a start-up, but I really enjoy working for myself, even when it meant that this year I managed to take zero weeks off work apart from the one week I was sick. Jack Wellman is a father and grandfather and a Christian author and pastor of Heritage Evangelical Free Church in Udall, KS [https://modelchrist.Even when asked a heavy question—about being hurt, doubted, denied considerable money—he has a habit of thinking hard momentarily, acknowledging the gravity with a blank stare, and then flashing a wide grin. I Got My Joy Back': Isaiah Thomas' Trip to Hell and Back Two years ago, he reached the pinnacle of his long NBA journey, but in a matter of weeks, he lost his sister and his career. I’m not the best at putting what’s in my heart into words, but I’ve been feeling something bubbling up inside me and I hope you can give me some advice. Each morning, when Isaiah and Kayla wake up, they rate their energy level, striving for a perfect 10. So, I’m learning, again, how to get my joy back; and I hope that what I share will encourage you also.

Are you an asshole if you don’t choose despair every single day when you wake up, simply because other people are suffering somewhere? I am so thankful for Amber's presence in my life and her voice in this topic, and I hope you enjoy the conversation as much as I did!The only “right” way to live was by torturing yourself around the clock and feeling like complete shit all the time. The Apostle John, in writing to the church, said he deeply desired to “visit you and talk with you face to face, so that our joy may be complete” (2 John 1:12), so John and the others (“our joy”) already had the joy of the Lord…they just wanted it to be complete by seeing them in person.

Of course I miss them both, but there is joy even in my heartache, even in my disappointment, even in my fog, even in my void, even when it hurts, but JOY is my portion. Rather, we should be “looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God” (Heb 21:2).I had deep rooted self-worth issues, and I kept looking past the fact that all this started and ended with me. I’m not talking about the moralizing that people do on social media around race or income inequality or feminism or the climate crisis.