• Journey

    Discovering Joy in the Pressing

    “Your words were found, and I ate them, and your words became to me a joy and the delight of my heart, for I am called by your name, O LORD, God of hosts.” Jeremiah 15:16 Do you remember joy? Do you remember the last time you felt an overwhelming sense of delight, anticipation, and confidence in what you were hoping for? When I think of joy, I remember the sense of excitement that left me sleepless on Christmas Eve waiting for dawn, a slide down a long snowy hill moving faster and faster until the inevitable bail, or being launched into the water by my father on a hot…