Simply Joyful

1 Thessalonians 5:16 "Be joyful always"

In this day and age, we have the the right to pursue happiness, and boy do we. Except that happiness is a temporary and fleeting feeling. Joy, however, is a state of life. Joy changes who we are. Finding our simplest joys opens the heart and makes room for living life, not spending our life hunting for happiness.
Where do I find joy?

1. Laughing with my sister


2. Feeling the sun shine down on me the first time I step out of the house each morning



3. Falling asleep next to my husband



4. The smell of the asphalt after a summer rainstorm
   
   
5. Seeing my sister in a luchardor mask
   


6. The Tucson Celtic Festival and the ability to buy Haggis in the desert
   


7. A nephew that dressed himself



8. The adventures teenagers bring to my life



9. Dublin on St. Patrick's Day



10. Driving without the radio on



11. Someone else doing the dishes
    
    
12. Going to camp...still



13. Communicating everything without a word
    
    
14. Thirty-minute pool noodle fights with middle school girls



15. Christmas Avenue



16. Kisses on the cheek



17. Crawling into a bed with freshly cleaned sheets



18. A day at the zoo



19. A parade



20. Receiving mail in the mailbox (not inbox)



21. Memorable adventures when everything seems to go wrong


22. Sitting outside and reading a book



23. People-watching at a coffee shop
    
    
24. Pin-trading at Disneyland


25. Saturdays