BEADS OF JOY 04-04-19
“Lent – Day 26”
©2019 James Dacey, Jr. OFS
“Joy - Overflowing Inside”
“Joy - Overflowing Inside”
Lenten Season – Day 26
My Friends,
As promised today we continue reflecting on Joy. Today I'd like to
share how I keep the focus, the thoughts, the faith, everyday throughout the
day pondering it in my mind. I never get lost in the confusion of a day's
activity such that my mind and my heart drift away from thoughts of my Lord. No
matter what is happening to me or around me, I thank Jesus for all that is
good, I thank Him for the challenges I don't understand, and I pray for the
arrogance and ignorance around me throughout my day. I also pray for those I
see suffering that I pass, in accidents, or ambulances, and even those in the
hospitals I pass. This has become a very natural part of my prayer life. It's
all about awareness, and it is through that awareness that the Joy inside me
continues to overflow.
I seek nothing for these things, like I said to you on Tuesday; I
want to bring you into my inner circle of Joy, so that you too can experience
the overwhelming overflowing abundance of Joy I experience every day. I also
pray that you are inspired to maybe change your daily lives; so that your
everyday is much more focused on Jesus. I realize that still many of you might
not understand the high energy and excitement of the entire thought being all
wrapped up in Jesus. So, I'd like to help you better understand the Joy. Let's
say you were to plan an extravagant vacation to the one place you've always
wanted to go. And this trip would be for as long as you wish, and there was no
limit on what you can do while you were at this place and you'd have a blank
check to basically spend whatever you needed while you were there. But there
were a few things you needed to do to prepare before heading out. But realized
that the excitement and joy that was ahead will be well worth the few things
required, and that in doing them, you gladly did them!! You see where I am
going with this.
This journey through life now is for that vacation to where we
want to go (Heaven), and there are some things our Lord asks of us in
preparation of being able to go (Confession, Adoration, Mass, Fellowship,
Leading others to Him, and so much more). Now place that overwhelming Joy
into your mind and heart thinking about the prior example of that extravagant
vacation, and you will begin to see and understand how I can maintain such a
super high level of ecstatic Joy all the time. My mind and heart have tunnel
vision for God, that is why I always say, All
Things Jesus 24/7/365. Our eternity and all that God has truly given to us
in this life is exciting. There is so much here on planet earth that we can
complain about, be unhappy with and never find Joy in. But with that being
said, we also have so much to be thankful and grateful for. Just having all
that Jesus gave us in Him dying for us, is worth more than virtually everything
else put together. And I got to tell you, just saying that, thinking that and
then typing that further builds up the Joy I already have in my life.
You too can have all this super high level, overwhelmingly
exciting Joy in your life. Just keep Jesus on your mind, in your heart and on
your soul always. Love Him above everyone and everything every day. Tomorrow I
will dig even deeper into ways that you can have such an exciting experience in
this life. I will tell you guys my life isn't all peaches and purple dinosaurs.
OK, LOL. See I made you smile. We all face challenges, and losses and
heartbreaks, we all do, we wouldn't be human if we didn't. Life was never
promised to be some perfect cup of tea, or coffee. The real-world kicks in the
minute we take our first breathe, so buckle up and hang on. LOL. Jesus needs to
be our co-pilot, our wing man, our coach, our lawyer, our doctor, our defensive
end, our offensive end. He needs to be entwined in our lives in such, that
nothing in our life avoids Him. Once we can establish that thought, it does get
rather easy, tomorrow I will share so much more about that. LOL! Angela has no
idea what she got involved in falling love with me. It’s all good. Her life will
be saturated with Jesus 24/7/365.
Today's Challenge: Write down the activities you have every day in
your life. (e.g. work, school, volunteer, whatever) next to them
honestly write down what or who is the absolute center focus during those
times, consciously or subconsciously. If they aren't Jesus or God or Our
Blessed Mother, then you need to change it, add it, fix it. For me, staying
focused on Jesus all the time makes all things good, no matter what I am doing.
The Secret to a Happy Life
w/ Fr. Jonathan Meyer
w/ Fr. Jonathan Meyer
LOVE
YOU GUYS !!!!
Your brother in Christ Jesus
And His Most Blessed Mother,
Jim (The Rosary Man) Dacey Jr OFS
Today is Thursday: We pray the Luminous Mysteries:
The Luminous Mysteries
1. The Baptism of Jesus (Matt 3:13-17)
2. Wedding Feast of Cana (John 2:1-12)
3. Proclamation of the Kingdom of God (Mark 1:15)
4. The Transfiguration (Mark 9:2-13)
5. Institution of the Holy Eucharist (Matt 26:17-30)
Glory and Honor and Praise -Lord Jesus Christ!!
Your brother in Christ Jesus
And His Most Blessed Mother,
Jim (The Rosary Man) Dacey Jr OFS
Today is Thursday: We pray the Luminous Mysteries:
The Luminous Mysteries
1. The Baptism of Jesus (Matt 3:13-17)
2. Wedding Feast of Cana (John 2:1-12)
3. Proclamation of the Kingdom of God (Mark 1:15)
4. The Transfiguration (Mark 9:2-13)
5. Institution of the Holy Eucharist (Matt 26:17-30)
Glory and Honor and Praise -Lord Jesus Christ!!
Rosary Man Jim's Luminous Reflections: http://beads-of-joy-blog.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-luminous-mysteries.html
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