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A Steady GI Joy

Since I am in many ways a bratty girl who likes to live my life at a high level of intensity (happy intensity, of course) I have always being seeking for consistent joy–not the chocolate and sugar rush of joy, but a constant GI joy that stays with me through the day.

And it takes setbacks for me to return to it, to find a steady source of joy.

To return to Christ who promises–“You will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy.” John 16:22.

That ultimately is the only unfailing prescription for joy that I know of–repenting, returning to Jesus, and drinking of his joy.

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