Several years ago, I did a blog challenge for myself to journey with joy.
It was in the midst of an incredibly difficult year and I was doing my best to get through each day. More than ever before, I came to understand the importance of being connected to JOY (which isn’t the same as being happy). I decided to live into being connected with joy by blogging about it. I thought having such a conscious action focused on JOY would be helpful for me.
I called it my journey with joy.
My challenge to myself back then, in August 2013, was to blog daily for a month about JOY, even if it was only posting a photo that brought me joy. I started off consistently (when I moved from my former online home to this current blog, I only brought one of those August ’13 posts over) but I ended up not blogging every day, mostly due to my father’s declining health and then death later that month.
But even without blogging every day, the challenge was helpful for me with dealing with all that was happening during that time. And consciously doing my best to stay connected with joy has been helpful for me in the often-difficult years since then.
So I’ve decided to blog my journey with joy again.
I’m not planning to blog daily, though.
And even when I do blog, not every post will be about JOY.
But from now through the end of this year, JOY is going to be a sort of theme here.
My hope is that it will help me in my own journey to stay connected with joy (which, again, is not the same as being happy).
And I’m also hoping it might help you too… maybe by offering a bit of hope, a reminder that you’re not alone, a gentle nudge to keep your eyes open for whatever brings you joy, something (even a moment) that’s uplifting to your day.
May our journeys with joy help us travel this road of life.
♥
Ginger Simpson White 