Monday, April 14, 2014

For This is Joy!

Have you ever looked joy right in the face?  Or do you recognize it where you are the most uncomfortable, the most reserved, in the most tentative, unsure moments of your life?  Do you look for joy?

Freedom is exhilarating, catching you unaware, and the joy creeps up from the bottom, until you are stretching your arms open wide and the heart is stretched to its limits, and you honestly don't know whether to laugh or to cry! It is at that point that the joy overflows and gratefulness is at the full, and you LOVE!  

We women...we toil, we lament, we worry, we scheme, we crave and we cave. And when the pressures mount to levels we cannot even envision, we find our spiritual selves have a life of their own and maneuver our steps toward peace, bonding, rising to the surface in order to breathe...with those we trust, love and know in our heart of hearts that we are one, we are kin, we are sisters.

To my sisters, your heart is safe with me, your dreams are cherished, your wounds are covered in prayer...your souls are beautifully adorned in God's grace, and I love you beyond measure. 

The good Lord knew we would have troubles and knew we needed family.  He gave me you!