And you will hear a little voice within you saying:
Your joy is not in your sadness nor in your confusion.
Your joy is not in the darkness where you are.
Your joy is not lost.
Your joy is not broken.
It is stored somewhere safe,
protected against all harm.
God Himself protects it!
God keeps it secure,
where not even the most piercing grief could touch it.
Your joy is in GOD’S LOVE
and God’s Love is always upon you.
LOVE NEVER FAILS.
What Fills My Heart With Joy
My heart is filled with joy because of God’s wonderful love for me.
Weak and small that I am, He takes notice of me and witnesses my life.
He takes me as I am and fashions me after His own glory.
He takes away my shame and my brokenness.
He heals my wounds.
He makes me beautiful and strong.
I will always look forward for that morning when He makes everything new.
Within my heart shall always dwell His voice, and I shall never be alone.
Wisdom is His constant gift, and respect, an eternal blessing as love.
Who would appreciate my small tokens of love? It is He who does not disregard my smallest efforts and my meekest prayers.
Who has planned the best things for me? It is He who has my welfare in mind for all eternity.
My short life is but a vapor that fades, but He grants me a life that never ends.
I am poor and have nothing, but mansions He has prepared for me where He is.
I cry and He wipes away my tears.
I run in grief, but He pursues me, and He wins me back with His words of love.
He shows me the value of each heartbreak,
the cost of every tear.
He shows me how each sorrow can turn to joy
a joy that never fades.
People may hunger now, but they shall be filled.
People may mourn, but they shall be comforted.
We shall receive far more than what we have lost,
and far more than what we could ever dream about.
He is just, but He is also merciful.
He reigns from on high, yet He is never out of our reach.
He is my Father, but He is also like a Mother who loves her children
each one is valuable, no one is dispensable,
each one loved as though she were her only child.
I have my questions but He answers them one by one,
I have my doubts, but He fills my soul with faith.
Where can I go that He cannot follow?
What wrong can I do that He cannot forgive?
There is nothing that can ever separate me away from Him,
and there is no one who could take away these things that fill my heart with the Joy of Him!
Check Jocelyn's books:
"Of Waves and Butterflies: Poems on Grief", "Mend My Broken Heart", "Questions to God", "To Love an Invisible God", "Defending My Catholic Faith", and more - click here.
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