Choosing

Today, right now, in this moment - I'm choosing joy and gratitude. Even though my heart and my flesh want to feel disappointment, betrayal, frustration, anger, defensiveness, weariness.... I am going to choose to put those things aside and choose joy. I have so much to be joyful for - my God, my husband, my family, my church, my home, my security in so many things.... And it's not that I ever forgot those things - it just that sometimes, in a fleeting moment we can either choose to let the things and the opinions of the world cloud our vision or we can choose to put them aside.

One of the many joys of following Christ is that He allows me to choose. He allows me to choose my family over the world. He allows me to choose joy over anger. He allows me to choose grace over defense. Tranquility over busy-ness. Peace over fret. Homemaking over career. Purposefulness over waste. Freedom over obligation and guilt. Eternal over temporal.

I'm so glad I have the choice.