Choosing Joy!

As we embark on a new year, many of us sit down and take some time to think of our hopes and goals for the year.  If I, Katie, write my goals down for the world to see, perhaps I will be more likely to not let them go to the wayside come February…

Here are my goals:

1. Finish reading the One-Year Bible (that I started a year and a half ago…)
2. Update our blog once a month 
3. Move to Jarabacoa

However, Aldo's and my main goal is to live 2012 by the motto “Today I Will Choose Joy.” 

To choose joy when life brings lemons (or limes for the DR folk). ;)

To choose joy even when life brings rotten lemons.

Being joyful is a choice.   Sometimes, a difficult choice to make.  But as Nehemiah put so well, 

“The joy of the Lord is my strength.” 

Nehemiah 8:10b