point of view

Comparing happiness to joy is like comparing cheap pink bubble-gum to italian dark chocolate.

This is something I wrote during prayer group, it's not much, maybe repetitive, but it's a prayer for our youth and the church. dryness lack of hunger death give us You give us thirst give us hunger teach us to run to You lay aside weights fight rejoice love stand in awe be patiently persevering teach us to feel give us clarity wisdom trust teach us to give over control focus us let us be obsessed with the goal rest in You give us awe hope teach us to worship

I wake my eyes and thoughts are blurry and the sun greets me I rejoice sometimes other times there is a steel wall on the sky and my heart is cloudy but I am still with You I caught a glimpse of the sun before the clouds took over and for a moment, the promise stained the clouds with joy I blinked and it was gone I wondered if it was a dream the day was gray and cheerless then the irony of it struck me there is not much color to a blue sky sunrise I smiled and tucked the sunrise in my heart to light up the rest of the dreary day in Your presence is fullness of joy.