I rarely make phone calls anymore. So last week when I was stirred to call a girlfriend, I obeyed my nudge and called. It was short and sweet and in the first 3 minutes she blurted out in sobs, "I don't feel joy anymore!" Oh girl. How many times have I blurted out the exact same words! I was able to return her cries with some wisdom I had JUST read that morning from one of my long-time favorite teachers, Beth Moore. We're not meant to live stuck. Bored. Uninspired. Joyless. We're called to abound, "more and more." Human emotions have an inherent propensity to grow. We can hate more and more or we can love more and more. Knowing the propensity of things to grow, which way do I want to go? "More and more" one direction will force its antithesis into "less and less." We get to decide which we want to feed and which we want to starve. I just returned from four joyful days with my two younger children
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