What’s on Your Heart? ❤️

I just realized I’ve allowed my joy to be stolen lately because I’ve allowed some old things to creep back in. Offense makes things about me and that’s not who I truly am. I want to be a joy-filled person so joy spreads. Need some recalibration for my heart.

No season of life is easy. No situation is ideal. People will do it better and will be chosen before me. If that steals my peace or joy, it’s on me. Because I have so many things to be thankful for, so much good to celebrate! Always because Jesus!

I’m sick of me, the “natural” me, winning. My old self is a sad girl who rarely smiles outside bc she’s just not okay inside. That was a miserable life! My new self knows Truth, enjoys Truth & lives her best life in it! What a great life!!

I’ve grown lazy and tired and complacent in the fight. Took some hits last few months that left a chink in the armor, a few really. Still feel the pain and hurt and loss; trauma to my soul. Reminders swarm around like bees. I know it’s in the past, but waves hit and knock me down. Battered and torn is a tough season to walk out. But walk it I will, all the way thru because I have an ever-present help; my Champion, my Hero. He’s Jesus, Savior of the world.

There’s both great good (from God alone) and a bounty of bad in me (that’s all

me) throughout my tiny part in God’s story.

The only thing I truly care about is God’s story; that the sentence of this life He gave me reflects Him more than not.

ONLY JESUS.

(Notice my cutie grandson - all the ❤️‘s).

So I need to reign it in. He’s Sovereign, I’m not.

Recalibrate my heart, God.

He’s healed us and made us new; He won’t stop. We can stop it, but that’s not His heart for us. I can’t say I have any energy to fight YET, but I’m closer every moment because I desire freedom. I desire joy. And God wakes us up to the heart of the matter if we let Him. So groggy as I may be, I’m awake! Hopefully you are too! ❤️