Having more joy does not necessarily require a life overhaul; you may just need to create more space in your life for moments of joy. There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself ~ an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly. I have come to learn that: When I follow my passion, success always trails along. Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
My passion for kids has brought joy in my life. To know even one life has comfort and breathed with ease because I have lived for that to me is success. Sometimes we need to honor what we feel to just realize our true purpose. Am content to be simply myself and never to compare nor compete earns me respect. I take a moment each day to be grateful for all of life's simple blessings. A child's smile is a huge satisfaction one can ever attain. Love and compassion are necessities, not luxaries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
I never want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully, tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long perfectly manicured fingernails. Would love to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp. I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbours children. I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone's garden. I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and the tears of a friend on my shoulder.
I believe all joy is an extension of gratitude, if we can find something to be thankful for, no matter what's going on, no matter how small ~ we can grasp the coattails of joy. Remember: There is no such thing as small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logic end.
