A Gift of Joy on a Shelf of Journals

Friends, let's share stories of joy today. 

Let us never grow weary of sharing God's gifts and God's grace in our lives.

Let us always share prayers but, please, may we always share praises too. 

Are you with me? Ready to share encouragement, to share God-moments? 

Okay, I will go first...

God didn't lead me through any long lessons today, 

just rest,

just renewal, 

just reminders.

I happen to be writing quite a bit lately and I am writing my favorite pens right out of ink and my first ever journal right out of pages. I can now say I've written an entire book, unedited that is, but a collection of sorts, of short stories, of my stories. 

Lives keep running on even when pages run out so...this morning I went on a very special shopping trip. I went browsing the bookstore for the just-right journal.

Well God gave journals, yes, but even better than that, God gave scripture that spoke right to my heart. For some, these verses will be of great encouragement. For others, you will understand the impact this succession of scripture had on me.

I took these photos in chronological order as the verses were gifted to me.

This is how it happened:

I opened each of the following journals to just one random page to see if it would suit my preferences for writing...

 Psalm 27:1.4-5

 And again, Psalm 27:4 

 Psalm 30:5

 Psalm 46:10

On the left page- Psalm 27:1 (Again!)

And on the right- Deuteronomy 31:8

 Nehemiah 8:10

 The message gets clear as He gives the verse so intricately woven with my salvation,

These pages aren't so random, they are so God

 Isaiah 40:31

 Psalm 30:5

Right off the bottom page of this journal,

"If joy really does come in the morning, then there's no better place to start the day."

Every morning, every journal, every page, every praise.

All to the glory of God.

"And now abide faith, hope, love, these three: but the greatest of these is love." 

1 Corinthians 13:13

P.S. I bought three.