Joy is like butter, it should spread.

Tonight I have a pretty overflowing heart. I have a heavy heart but it is much like a sponge drenched with water to the point where it cannot take anymore in. It's not necessarily a bad thing, and it's a whirlwind of different things pouring into my heart.

I suppose it happened after two strange things happened today. I went for a run, and sometimes when I run I like to listen to worship music. I have had some of my best worship experiences while I run. So right from the start it began with a very good mood. At the start of my run all of a sudden a big whitetail doe started to sprint across the road not fifteen feet in front of me.

It scared me at first, a big beast of an animal that close to you, but afterward when it ran off I couldn't help but smile. I don't know, sometimes I'm gushy like that. Then on my return run there were dark clouds out but the sun was still hanging around, and it started to rain these huge drops of rain. I started running faster to reach the end and then the rain stopped. But then it started again, and harder so I decided to cut through the field.

I don't know what came over me, I started to laugh.

It was a joy that sometimes I get to busy to feel anymore. It was like I was God's little girl and I was in the yard playing with Dad. Then I took a shower and sat down and started thinking.

It was one of those joyous times in my spiritual life that will probably be forever imprinted in my mind, and there are those who don't get to feel that joy. There are Christian people stifling the joy of the Church because of denominational traditions or other ways. There are people who don't know Christ and are not able to feel the Spirit's joy.

So my heart is filled with this desire to see the joy on people's faces when they see Christ for the first time. When Christian people see that denomination is not what gives us joy, but the big picture; that Christ loved us enough to die in our place. This joy drives our passion to do God's work with an unconditional heart.

I'm here to spread the joy
I'm here to help people laugh with God
I'm here to see that God-given smile on someone's face


Find the joy, give the joy, and see it spread.

All to God