It has been 6 months since I was here! Wow, how life has kept me busy. I have finished renovations on our house in WV, we sold our house (all praise to the Lord for how quickly that happened!), had an offer accepted on a house in NC, and at the end of July, will be finishing up our year here in FL and moving north again. My girls are growing up so fast - my youngest will be 5 in August!

But enough about all of that. I have had lots of times to think about the title of my blog ;) And I still have SO much to learn about choosing JOY in the midst of everything in my life and the lives of others. I found a web page about joy, and it included this quote: "Without Christ in me, I could never choose joy".  That is so true.

I might have shared this before, but a website that has been such a help is "In Christ I am..." And I like (and need!) to meditate on one truth each day - it helps me to keep focused on the Lord, on who He says I am, not listening to myself or the world tell me who I need to be! Today's - In Christ, I am God's child - and if I think about my own dc, and how I feel about them, about how I love to see them, love to watch them enjoy life (we saw fireworks for their very first times last night!), how I love to comfort them when sick or afraid or sad, how they can lean back against me or my dh and feel safe - all of that is SO MUCH MORE when referring to God as my Father, and me as His child.