cogitatio

Being Joyful

It's not easy...

Went to the mall, it snowy slushy, misereable out. I just spent the last hour hopping from late bus to late bus only to arrive here. This place and to make matters worse I was just drenched by a passing car. Yup this season can be difficult.

how should we prepare for this season? We can't really anicipate anything, we know what were celebrating and where it heads after that so how do we get into a place a mindset where we can anticipate the celebration of Jesus birth?

I recently spent some time preparing some devo's for our next message and I marvel at how easy it comes out on paper, Mary's first reaction is one of joyful praise of God. God's Angel says hey Mary your going to have a baby, people will frown on you, may even shun you, get over it he is conceived of the holy spirit, the one everyone has been waiting for. She rejoices in God right then. Man when I get good news like that, wait guess I wont ever get that news but you know what I mean. My first reaction is woohoo I'm so great, if I even am joyful at all. Our society has morphed us into beings that move from one joy to another never satisfied, never joyful, sometimes I wonder if we forgot how.

Anyways I'm just rambling, but seriously how can we live in the joy that is our lives how can we reclaim the joy that God gives us, what does it mean to rejoice in the Lord? What does it mean if we have forgotten Joy.

How do we be joyful?

posted by Steve @ 8:56 PM