- That some potential challenges ended up going smoothly
- lunch hour, sitting on the couches with a friend, silently, watching TV on our laptops
- an episode of New Girl that made me laugh when I really needed a laugh
- the arrival of the weekend
- candy after lunch
- a couple hours of unwinding by tackling some cleaning and leftover tasks from the weekend
- working on some knitting
- a few creative endeavours
- climbing into pajamas still warm from the dryer
- the smell of nice fabric softener
Friday, March 09, 2012
Daily 5 - Year 3, Day 201
Today's Daily 5:
Friday Reflections, March 9, 2012
This reminder from Henri Nouwen seemed like a good one to share in this space today:
Choosing Joy
Joy is what makes life worth living, but for many joy seems hard to find. They complain that their lives are sorrowful and depressing. What then brings the joy we so much desire? Are some people just lucky, while others have run out of luck? Strange as it may sound, we can choose joy. Two people can be part of the same event, but one may choose to live it quite differently than the other. One may choose to trust that what happened, painful as it may be, holds a promise. The other may choose despair and be destroyed by it.
What makes us human is precisely this freedom of choice.
Choosing Joy
Joy is what makes life worth living, but for many joy seems hard to find. They complain that their lives are sorrowful and depressing. What then brings the joy we so much desire? Are some people just lucky, while others have run out of luck? Strange as it may sound, we can choose joy. Two people can be part of the same event, but one may choose to live it quite differently than the other. One may choose to trust that what happened, painful as it may be, holds a promise. The other may choose despair and be destroyed by it.
What makes us human is precisely this freedom of choice.
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