Recapturing joy

Life today is difficult.  Problems challenge us and we worry about our children’s futures.  It’s easy to fall into the trap of taking ourselves too seriously, of worrying about success, jobs, acceptance, parenting, illness and so on.  It’s easy to lose our ability to laugh.  It’s easy to forget the simple ways of purely enjoying one another.  Celebration keeps us balanced in a difficult world, renews our perspective and enables us to recapture joy.  It provides us with an easy means of building friendships within the family.  A real benefit of celebration is that it can be very simple and yet the dividends are so great.

When wisdom enters your heart, and knowledge is pleasant to your soul, discretion will preserve you; understanding will keep you, to deliver you from the way of evil.  Proverbs 2 : 10 – 12