This month I learnt a little bit about joy. Mid month I had a little bit of a break down, I was crying in our contacts bathroom. It was silly really I was crying because the internet would not work and I couldn’t talk to my Mom. I think it was a build up from a stressful week in Higneronous and all the physically demanding work we had been doing. I had been holding it together but at that moment the walls broke. My thoughts were “how can I handle 9 more months of this” and ” I want to go home”. I had a little bit of a pity party in the bathroom and let all the emotions that I had been holding in come rushing out.
After this moment I reminded myself that this year is not about me it is about spreading God’s love and doing his will. I choose to seek my comfort in God and will persevere until the end because he is guiding me. We are working for God and we choose to do whatever is asked of us no matter what it is because this is what Jesus would do. We learnt a lot of how our attitude affects those around us, if one is negative it will spread like wildfire. We need to instead spread joy. Our contacts favourite saying was “choose joy”. It doesn’t matter what kind of situation you are in whether it is sickness or a job you are struggling with you can choose how you respond to the situation.
Joshua 1:9 says “Be strong and courageous. Don not be terrified; do not be discouraged for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go”
