There’s been joy every day, that is for sure, joy every single day since I started this latest 30 Days project here on The Daily Grace. We were running full speed toward Christmas at the time and I knew there was goodness ahead. It would be a season filled with grand moments, gorgeous ones worth celebrating. But there surely would be sweet, quiet moments as well, and I felt myself at great risk of running right through them in the rush to get to those more sparkly ones.
No, I thought. I want to notice them all. I want to take note of them all.
And so I started to write about them on The Daily Grace. And now we reach Day 30 and one of the best Joy lessons of them all. It is this:
Sometimes the very best joy is sharing someone else’s.
Right? Do you agree? Did you already know?
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I woke up this morning to an email that made my heart rejoice with so much happy I giggled. I giggled! It was from my dearest of friends, Julie Turner, a bright light in this world who spreads joy like a farmer spreads fertilizer.
Um. Yeeeeeeaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhuh
is what the email said. That’s so Julie, is what I thought. And then I saw what she was referring to. It seems her hero–okay, her ultimate hero if you wanna know the truth of it–had just retweeted her.
Wow oh wow, I thought. And then I clicked on the photo link in the tweet.
That’s so Julie is what I thought again. She recently painted the risers of her stairway with chalkboard paint, and she and her husband and two boys always have something fabulous written there.
when their new puppy, Jerry, came to live with them
Thanksgiving, of course
Aren’t these chalkboard stairs the best idea?
Isn’t it swell that Lyle responded to her tweet?
Isn’t the lesson so true????
Sometimes the very best joy is sharing someone else’s.
Yes. Yes. Yes!
30 Days of Joy
*Want a little Julie joy in your life? Follow her on twitter and instagram @juliesturner
PREVIOUS JOY
Day 5: For Love of the Cranberry
Day 6: When Joy is Bittersweet
Day 8: Now Christmas Can Begin!
Day 12: The Annual Corporate Christmas Party
Day 20: Walks, Dogs and Spanish Moss
Day 23: Playing Favorites (or 6 things I learned during Christmas Break)
Day 26: On Dreams. And Courage.
Don’t stop, I look forward to your daily grace!! Thank you
Thank you, Jean!