ARE YOU SEEING JOY? (IN YOUR LIFE)

ARE YOU SEEING JOY?
(IN YOUR LIFE)


What do you see
When you LOOK
In the MIRROR?
Are you SEEING JOY?


Or do you see a FACE
That is sad=weary=
And WORRIED?


A JOYLESS CHRISTIAN is
A CONTRADICTION in terms=
We should be happy=we should
KNOW=we are going to
LIVE FOREVER


FEEL THE JOY


“Sing to the Lord
A new song of PRAISE


In the assembly
Of the FAITHFUL” Psalm 149:1


From the earliest of TIMES
JOY has been
ONE of the hallmarks
Of our Christian faith


MANY Christians=have gone
To their deaths=singing
For joy


WHAT are you seeing
When you look in the mirror?
Are you seeing JOY
On your face?


“But let all
Who take refuge in you
Be glad


Let them even SING
FOR JOY


Spread your protection
Over them
That those who LOVE your name
May REJOICE in you” Psalm 5:11


“The FATHER
Of a righteous child
Has great JOY


A man who fathers
A wise son
REJOICES in him” Proverbs 23:24


“That JOY is mine
And it is now complete


He must become greater
I must become less” John 3:29-30


Of course=we can't
Walk around=GRINNING
All the time=because
Of our JOY


But we can let people KNOW
That the SOURCE of our joy
Is that


GOD LIVES inside of us
And that we are AWARE
Of the PRESENCE of God
And Jesus in our lives


And WHEN we look
Into the mirror=we should
That joy on our FACE
We should be aware
Of that EVER PRESENT JOY
Living INSIDE of us


“Many Lord are asking=
'Who will
Bring us prosperity?'


Let the light of your FACE
SHINE on us” Psalm 4:6


OUR kind of joy
Runs deep=it CAN even
COEXIST with sorrow=pain
Worry and fear


So I ask you=
Are you seeing JOY-or-
Are you seeing gloom
WHEN you look into the mirror?


I hope it is JOY=and
I hope it is
Because of the PRESENCE
Of God and Jesus in your life


Dear Lord=OUR SOURCE OF JOY=
Gives us a deep presence
Of you=in our life today


In the names of Jesus and OUR all loving Father


Robert P. Wallman
9-11-18




Ps INSPIRED by an article in LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE by Sr. Melannie Svoboda, S.N.D.