Count It All As Joy

Can I be frustrated, when I count it all as joy?
Can I be angry, when I count it all as joy?
Can I be sad, when I count it all as joy?
Can I be scared, when I count it call as joy?

I certainly believe so. The key is counting it all as joy after you work through the emotion of your crisis.

As we have been trying to navigate our Toxic House situation, it has been difficult to accept the tortoise pace and the perceived lack of response.

I understand that our house is NOT their house. They are going home to a a place that their children can breath free. Where they can sit down at their dinner table and lay their heads down on their pillows with our worry. My problems are not their problems.

As a business owner, I understand the time versus income dilemma. I have the same 24 hours in a day as everyone else. I pray though, that I have always provided my clients with hope and direction when I was not their best choice.

I am not loud or nasty. I will not demand or force my situation on others but instead continue to communicate our need and trust that somehow, in someway we will once again have a place to call home.

I was encourage by the following quote from "My Utmost for His Highest" July 28:

"If I can stay calm, faithful, and unconfused while in the middle of the turmoil of life, the goal of the purpose of God is being accomplished in me. God is not working toward a particular finish— His purpose is the process itself. What He desires for me is that I see “Him walking on the sea” with no shore, no success, nor goal in sight, but simply having the absolute certainty that everything is all right because I see “Him walking on the sea” (Mark 6:49). It is the process, not the outcome, that is glorifying to God."

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