whew. what a week. starting with a trip to the dr/orthopedic last friday. that big 'ole bruise I blogged about ended up being a little more than a bruise. my car is acting up and has to go to the shop. life isn't always as perfect as we'd like. a guy I graduated from hs with committed suicide. then an English teacher at my high school was shot and killed by her ex-husband. I've been fighting an incling to feel depressed. tempted to misplace my joy.
starting with my knee.. i'm pretty active, workout about 5-6days/wk. pretty intense plyo/run/weights/asylum/turbo... but with partial tears in your medial meniscus & ACL those things can't exactly happen. so super decreased in the endorphin levels. my joy mustn't change. I'm not paralyzed. I'm not dead. no cast. no surgery (yet). I am alive in Christ and no circumstance or satan can rob me of my joy.
and with the death of fellow CMHS foxes, even though I wasn't super close with either of them. they were still part of that family. life is a vapor, a breath. and even with that our hope is unshaken. and I wonder did I share that hope with those two? am I sharing the unchanging joy, peace, and hope that only comes from Jesus. Christ with my life everyday.
and with all the little things I could go on and on and complain about. or I could choose joy.
today I will choose joy. because I have a joy that is not shaken.
" Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer." Romans 12:12
"Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe, for our God is a consuming fire." Hebrews12:28
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