pure joys

when you are in the midst of a trial or in a few trials, do you ever stop and consider them a pure joy?

don't feel bad, i'm right there with you! after the "shock" of the reason of the trial has blown over, be it an hour,day,week,month,or even five years later, i do start seeing the good things coming out of it all.

God wants us to see trials as pure joy,believe it or not. it says so in James 1:2-4.

i've gotten back to reading, and as you know i'm slightly obsessed in love with Mrs. Karen Kingsbury. i'm currently re-reading Take One , the first book in the Above the Line Series. i have been being remindedd of the verse in James 1 about trials should be considered a pure joy. i had almost forgotten that it's all in that book. and just a little shout out to the fabulous mrs kk - i'm now hooked on reading and wish i didnt' have to put it down to work!

today, my heart is troubled. most of my family probably don't even know i blog. i don't care for them reading it, they just "don't get" this kind of stuff. you know, "putting all your stuff out there on the world wide web" blah blah blah ..

but, as many of you have said before, this place is a great therapy place!

right off the bat this morning, my first clients were my grandparents. im very close to them, and will admit i haven't talked to them in almost a week. they've been busy and so have i. i kept thinking i was going to go see them yesterday, but instead thought that since i haven't been home on a sunday afternoon in over 6 weeks (no joke either! 6 weeks or more), that i would just stay at home and read some more.mainly because the next 10 weekends hold something, and mainly on sundays ....

well, in some ways i'm glad i didn't go. you see, i found out that my granny has been sick off and on since wednesday. and yesterday she was so sick she didn't go to church at all. that means she must've been pretty bad sick! she had her yearly physical this past week, and they have found she maybe having some heart "issues".

my heart is broken right now. my granny is 72, and is in great health minus asthma. she's active, young looking and acting. she says it's no big deal, and that the doctors will see it was just something to do with her asthma.

my papa on the other side, who is a strong, yet negative kind of man, thinks differently. he's definately worried about her!

they've been together about 56 or 57 years. they will be married for 55 years july 27. they still call each other baby,honey,etc etc. very sweet.

my papa has been the one that we've had to travel the bad health road with over the last 8 - 10 years. not her.

i have a busy afternoon at work, but all i want to do is pray and cry and think.

however, this is all a pure joy,right?

i'm sure it will be soon ....

Waiting on Joy,
Britt