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Choosing Joy

Last week I felt like I was losing it. Losing what exactly I'm not quite sure...but it was something. Getting through five minutes in a day couldn't be this hard. It shouldn't be. But it was. It often is. It's a struggle. This life is a struggle. I yelled, cried and hollered and asked Him why He doesn't just fix me, why He lets me struggle through my day, struggle with this anger, why I can't be who I think I am, who I think I should be.  I thought He was being silent...then the peace came. His peace. His JOY. I'm grateful for how God speaks to me. I used to think I didn't know how to hear from Him. I used to think He chose to be silent. But I'm realizing I was wrong. Maybe it's just that it takes a lifetime to get to know what He sounds like...and I'm just getting a little more familiar with His voice. I keep falling and failing and wallowing in the guilt. But I'm ready for the cycle to be broken. I want to be a woman who&#

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Five minute Frida y:  Where a beautiful crowd spends five minutes all writing on the same topic and then share over here . Where we  just write without worrying if it’s just right or not. Welcome Go I stand with outstretched arms to welcome what's coming. I'm done with the striving and the stomping of my feet and with the tantrums I have in my head and the ones I have in real life, the ones I have as I wrestle with dissatisfaction. I welcome what is. I welcome what is right now. I welcome this place God has me (wherever that may be). I welcome the strife. I welcome the tears. I welcome the work. I welcome the growing pains. I know it WILL all work for my good. I TRUST that even if now doesn't feel good, HE is good . And since God is always good,  I will welcome whatever He has for me.  And since God is always good, I welcome His grace, His gift, His Joy in all things. All things . All things because I will not pick and choose what parts of His plan I welcome