One of the questions that my team leader Ryan loves asking is what brings you joy and it has been one of the hardest questions I have had to answer, which just baffles me…I should know by now what brings me joy…right?
The great thing about God is that even when you don’t ask things out loud, He loves you enough to show you what your heart is asking.
One of our host friends have been blessing us with more ministry opportunities for my triad and also our squad. One of them was a special need orphanage, to be honest, I am never sure how I will react when going to orphanages; in the past my emotions have range from joy, brokenness and anger. So I was apprehensive about going to a special need one.
We invited a few of our squad mates who we knew had a heart for special needs children and in that moment of being at the orphanage, God asked me what brings you joy oriolyne and usually when God ask me questions the answer tends to be right in front of me.
There it is…my squad mate Courtney in full bliss. That’s what brings me joy, seeing others in their bliss and knowing that God is loving them through others.
Seeing someone who should be completely broken, smile, laugh and filled with more joy that people who have everything they ever need. That’s what brings me joy and brings my own joy and happiness into perspective…that laugh is all that I needed that day to change my perspective on what brings me joy but also what I need to pursue and that’s Gods joy.
Courtney, Thank you for showing me what brings me joy, Candy thank you for showing me joy through God’s heart.
Psalm 139
13 For you created my inmost being;you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.15 My frame was not hidden from you
when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.16 Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. 17 How precious to me are your thoughts,[a] God! How vast is the sum of them! 18 Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand—when I awake, I am still with you.
14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.15 My frame was not hidden from you
when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.16 Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. 17 How precious to me are your thoughts,[a] God! How vast is the sum of them! 18 Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand—when I awake, I am still with you.
Oriolyne Ruchama
World Racer
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