JOY-Happy!

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CARTOONS! I was cleaning out some old files in my email and found one that Joan had sent me for the National Mental Health Day! I doodled the email photo and then added the saying that came with it: "From one unstable person to another. . . Hope everyone is happy in your head -- we're all doing pretty good in mine!" (smile!) 

A new idea! Cartoons!

GLUEPAGE JOY! A collage page of things that have to do with JOY! Found two! 

INSPIRATIONAL ARTICLES!

Brave Girls Club: How to Start a Day-to-Day Creative Practice! I see where Stephanie got her idea to combine daily creative practice with Bible reading. 😇

Erica Arndt's Quilted Composition Notebook Cover: Easy tutorial on YouTube. I think I will be making this to cover my 2021 Positivity Journal. 

I discovered Mat and Savanna Shaw during Covid Lockdown and loved their singing together. Here's a Thankful Daddy Daughter duet on YouTube. I bet you'll love them as much as I do! Some of their songs have been very meaningful to me. 

Marsha Baker's Thanksgiving Project Round-up with a couple of lists of things you can be thankful for. Be sure to watch her doodling tutorial video. 

MOVIES! 

Watched a few movies and made a new playlist on YouTube for my friends called "Movies to Watch." 

ONE OF MY FAVORITE POEMS - The Serenity Prayer. Written by Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr. His biography and a copy of the poem are here. 

QUOTES & SAYINGS:

"A flame can light a thousand candles." ~ The Unexpected Gypsy. 

BE HAPPY! 

Carleta's card: Share JOY. Give THANKS! Have you watched my "Finding JOY" video and the second one?

Choosing JOY is being able to see God's goodness even when life is hard and messy. 

Find out what give you JOY and go there. 

Focus on doing more things that bring you JOY.  

"Hope is putting faith to work when doubting would be easier." ~ Thomas Monson. 

"Of all the things you wear, your smile is the most important." ~ Kind Notes.

Private quotes from friends. 

"She turned her can't into cans and her dreams into plans." ~ Kobi Yamada

"The wound is the place where the Light enters you." ~ Rumi.

"You and I are both very fortunate to have had grandmothers who gave us their love of genealogy." ~ Susan Lohr

SCRIPTURES:

Exodus 18:9 = Jethro was delighted to hear about the good things the Lord had done for Israel in rescuing them from the hand  of Egypt. 

1 Samuel 7:12 = Then Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen. He named it Ebenezer, saying "Thus far has the Lord helped us." 

Isaiah 6:5 = "my eyes have seen the King the Lord Almighty." (JOY Coloring Sheet!)  

Ecclesiastes 3:1,4 = These is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven... a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance.

Matthew 5:14-15 = You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house.

2 Corinthians 4:8-9 [Documented Faith] = We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed, perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed.  

1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 [Documented Faith] = Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. 

SONGS!

Anybody remember this song? We sang it in church!

If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands! 

If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands!

If you're happy and you know it, then your face will surely show it,

If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands!

Stomp your feet

Praise the Lord

Say Amen! 

Beep your nose -- Beep! Beep!

SMILE!