Joyful Tuesdays

Happy Tuesday Everyone!  

I got this mornings thoughts from The Upper Room Daily Devotional.  Words I just needed to hear, so thought I would share!

‎"Forgiving a person or a group of people is hard if they have greatly wronged us; we often harbor anger and bitterness. We may become suspicious and paranoid, letting that wrong affect every area of our lives. Resentment can damage our bodies like a poison and destroy our relationships. Ironically, our resentment does not harm those who have injured us. We hurt only ourselves.

On the other hand, forgiving others neutralizes the poisons of anger and bitterness. Instead of misery, we can choose joy. We go on without the heavy burden of anger. Our reward for developing a spirit of love is joy. We begin to appreciate the gifts of God. We learn to value the days God gives us, and we can live every area of life to the fullest. When we possess a grateful and forgiving heart, outside circumstances cannot diminish the joy in each day."

-- Upper Room Daily Devotional

Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ has forgiven you.    - Ephesians 4:32

Have a wonderful JOYFUL Tuesday!

InstaFriday

Happy Friday!

Today is Friday so we are linking up with InstaFriday- Life Rearranged and sharing those wonderful photos taken with your phone!  I didn't have any grand exciting picture to share with you guys this Friday but I absolutely love this statement that I instagrammed!

Our JOY should be contagious!  God has blessed me in so many ways and to not let His JOY shine and be contagious would be displeasing to Him, the one who created this Joy inside my heart. Matthew 4:6 says he "made his light shine in our hearts".  Then in 2 Corinthians 5:16 he calls us to "Let our light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise you Father in Heaven".   So I challenge you today to go allow your JOY to be spread among the people around you! Let's start an epidemic of JOY!!

JOYful Tuesday!

Happy JOYful Tuesday Everyone!

I hope everyone has had a great start to their week!

Today I am challenging everyone to CHOOSE JOY! Why, you may ask?  Joy is not just being happy, it so much deeper than that.  Joy is the happy state that results from knowing and serving God, it is a gift from God (Galatians 5:22)

Choosing Joy gives us…

Strength ~ Nehemiah 8:10

Thankful hearts ~1 Thessalonians 5:16-18

Ability to touch lives ~ Matthew 5:16

Hope ~ Romans 15:13

Perseverance ~ James 1:2-4      

Just to name a few… 

So Let us choose JOY on this beautiful Tuesday!

       “Let us Rejoice and be glad, for this is the day the Lord has made!” ~ Psalm 118: 24



Hello Monday!

What a wonderful weekend we had!  Friday night was movie night and then Saturday we went to Amicalola Falls State Park and hiked to the top of the falls.  It was nice to get outside and enjoy God's creations around us!  Here are a few pictures we took on our hike! Enjoy!

"Great are the works of the Lord; they are pondered by all who delight in them."

~ Psalm 111:2

InstaFriday ~ 8/17/12

Happy Friday Everyone!  Today we are linking up with InstaFriday-Life Rearranged and sharing photos taken with our phone! Simple, silly, everyday moments that make up our lives!

 "Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize?  Run in  such a way as to get the prize." ~ 1 Corinthians 9:24 

I decided to share some race photos!  I like to run, it is a huge stress relief for me and makes me feel like a new person every time!  I have ran several races within the last year, from fun runs to the Peachtree Road race, and thoroughly enjoyed every race.  There is an adrenaline that you get that pushes you toward the finish line!  My long term goal is to run a Half Marathon, however I have been a little lazy these past few weeks and haven't laced up my running shoes like I should have!  I need to get started again and just take it one day at time!

"... Let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us!" ~ Hebrews 12:1

Surprise! It's a ...

    Just wanted to let everyone know that we are going to have a NEPHEW!  You thought I was going to say "baby" didn't ya ;) gotcha!  No, but really, we are excited for Joel and Emily Bruce on their new addition to the Bruce family!  We all found out a couple of weeks ago when the cute couple cut the surprise cake!

Congratulations you guys! We can't wait until January to welcome Baby Boy Bruce into the family!

Joyful Tuesdays

    So I have decided that Tuesdays will now be Joyful Tuesdays!  I will be posting on my favorite verses, quotes, ect. that will fill us with joy and maybe sometimes even a little laughter! So lets get this Tuesday started!
     My all time favorite verse is Jeremiah 29:11.

  Isn't it relieving that God has already planned our life out for us!  He is like our personal Life Planner!  If anyone knows me, they know that I am a little OC with having to have a plan.  I have to know where we are going, why we are going there, at what time we are going; however, my husband is quite the opposite, he is a fly be the seat of your pants kinda guy, which is kinda stressful for me at times but i still love him! But to know that I don't have to worry about my future feels me with JOY! This doesn't mean that life is going to be perfect and we are going to be traveling this beautiful yellow brick road all the days of our life.  There will be times in our life when things don't go our way or the way we think they are suppose to go.  In these times we have to realize that we are lost people without God's direction in our lives.  Proverbs 16:9 simply states,"In their hearts humans plan their course, but the Lord establishes their steps." How refreshing! 

Have a JOYful Tuesday Everyone!