On Saturday, I took the opportunity to read a chapter in one of my books on mothering. It really spoke to me so I thought I'd share it today for a motivation Monday.
The book is titled Seasons of a Mother's Heart by Sally Clarkson. The chapter I read was on celebrating life. In this chapter, Sally shared two simple, biblical principles on how to live a joyful life.
First, choose to be thankful. She used Job as an example. He lost everything that was important to him and even after his wife tried to get him to blame God, he accepted that it was God's will and trusted in Him.
Her second principle on living a joyful life is learn to be content. Philippians 4:11 states, I have learned whatsoever state I'm in, therewith to be content. If I'm content, joy will naturally follow.
Bottom line, if we choose to be thankful and learn to be content, then we are opening our hearts to let joy come in.
I was motivated by this and I hope that you will be motivated as well. Let us choose to be thankful and content. I'm ready for a joy-filled life, are you?
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