wouldn't it be cool if we each decided to give up despair for lent this year...as a group. every time we catch ourselves being negative, we just turn ourselves 180 degrees and choose for joy.

now that's a great community lenten exercise, imo

anyone want to join me in this effort? :-)

let's see how many smiles we can put on our (collective) faces spreading joy every where we go...for forty days (well. less now; but long enough to effect a change in our individual hearts by moving away from the habit of despair)

AMEN! Softsilk!
CHOOSE JOY!  Make a consious decision to be joyful..... not negative.  Try it for one day and see what happens...... Get up in the morning and say"God, today I am going to be joyful... no matter what!  Give me the strenght to smile.... to find the joy in waking up in the morning... to take that smile and share it with everyone I meet today....

Also, smiling can be fun... just imagine what everyone will think...Hmm... I wonder what she is up to???  or..... Hmmm, I wonder what happened to her.. she is usually so down... it is great to see her smile.

Smile people, God is good... even when things are on the downturn... He gives us a hand up!!!

God bless.

even if someone chooses to smile (for joy giving despair a kick in the pants) for FIFTEEN MINUTES A DAY for 40 days, I BET they'd report back about how hope is growing within their hearts. how cool is THAT?!

thanks for the supportive post joyinhim

M.

p.s. but LESS than fifteen minutes a day shows a LACK OF COMMITMENT. don't kid yourself. ya gotta do at least fifteen minutes of smiling a day, deliberately choosing in those fifteen minutes to exile despair from your mind.

THANK YOU STAR:D ! ! ! ! ! !
One thing I will NEVER "fast" from is smiling and endeavoring to impart grins on others!

k-bearsmom wrote:

THANK YOU STAR:D ! ! ! ! ! !
One thing I will NEVER "fast" from is smiling and endeavoring to impart grins on others!

.......good! :-)