Finding Joy

There's an ocean in my heart. My family and I took a vacation to the coast a week ago~ it had been a YEAR since I had seen the sea. As a Navy brat, that's a REALLY. LONG. TIME. And only when I stood facing it's beautifully thrashing, racing waves, smelling that gritty, salt air, glorying in it's wild wind, did I really feel that year. A whole year. A year without sitting in my church. God is at the sea. I feel His presence best watching those waves, tasting that salt, hearing the gulls.

Psalm 46:10

“Be still, and know that I am God." 

Women in particular seem to have such a rough time with Psalm 46:10. Be still??! Are you kidding me? Still. Seriously. Still?! Do you have any idea how rapidly laundry breeds? Or how crabby folks get when there's no food to be had? That psalm was obviously intended for nudists...or people without children. 

 The ocean is wild. It is free.  In it's constant movement I can finally, finally be still. God is such a romantic, He gives us beauty to rest in. Drops of joy to be had in each day. Rain drops when the sun is shining, one of my very favorite things. High tide, when the waves lick sand castle ruins and chase children's toes up shore. Unabashedly luscious blooms on fruit trees. Thanks God. 

 

Find those moments of joy, sparkles of beauty God picked out just for you today. Those minute details He remembered to include just for you, just because He knew you'd love them. And how could we not? They show the boundless love of our creator, the one who invented freckles and swirling, turbulent clouds, brilliant cherry blossoms  and yes, emerald waves tipped in shocking white. Find your joy today and hold it in your heart. 

~Genna