These are two words that do not seem to go together AT ALL. In this election year, many of us rather feel more like Habakkuk: “How long, Lord, must I call for help,    but you do not listen?Or cry out to you, “Violence!”    but you do not save? Why do you make me…

Living with joy should be a discipline we seek to employ in our everyday lives, just as is praying and meditating on Scripture.  God has enabled us, through Christ, to live this way.  In Nehemiah 8:10 the prophet says the joy of the Lord is our strength.  In his book, The Life You’ve Always Wanted,…