Today is my 27th birthday. Weird? Yes...very. Had you asked me 10 years ago where I would be, this is most likely NOT where I would have said. Single, living in Africa, and teaching. But I am thankful. And God really does know the true desires of our heart...I don't think He made me for a typical 9-5 job sort of life in the states. Although, some days I think I would like it very much. :)

This morning I was reading in the grace Bible study I am doing about joy. Let me leave you with this thought....

"We believe the illusion that joy will come someday when conditions change. We go to school and think we'll be happy when we graduate and get married. We get married and decide we'll be happy when we have kids. We have kids and decide we'll be happy when they grow up and move out. When they do, we lament that we were happier when they were home. If you are going to know joy, it must be in this day.
Joy in this world is most always in spite of something. It is a "defiant nevertheless." It is a joy that hold tight to the belief that God has not yet written the last chapter-and that when he does, joy will reign unblemished and uninterrupted.
If you don't rejoice today, you will not rejoice at all. If you wait until conditions are perfect, you wait until you die. This is the day that the Lord has made."