PURE JOY

Snippet

Life doesn’t always wait for the waters to calm  The Saga of Harlan Waugh Terry Grosz 116

Scripture

Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters,[a] whenever you face trials of many kinds, 3 because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. 4 Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. James 1:2-4 NIV

Song

Can't Complain by Reliant K

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_ikw0n9uyM

Looking at the cop in the rear view mirror

Probably should have stopped but the crosswalk was clear

I'll just imagine it's a ticket to a Broadway show

Looking at the clouds and they seem kinda funny

Probably gonna rain but my outlook is sunny

I'll just imagine that I'm laying out in Mexico

Cause I know that pleasures gotta come with pain

And I know that things won't always go my way

And I know that life is gonna suck some days

But I can't complain

I can't complain

Every days too short to let it go to waste

Now I can't complain

I can't complain

You gotta treat every day like a holiday

And I'm telling you

That I know some days I'm gonna stumble

And I know the cookie's gonna crumble

And I know that life is gonna suck some days

But I can't complain

Waiting on a never ending train at the crossing

Paying it no mind cause you just keep talking

We'll just imagine it's the good old days and take it slow

Spending Christmas Eve on the floor of the airport

Dying to get back to the people that I care for

Smiling just dreaming about my puppy in my bed back home

Cause I know that pleasures gotta come with pain

And I know that things won't always go my way

And I know that life is gonna suck some days

But I can't complain

I can't complain

Every days too short to let it go to waste

Now I can't complain

I can't complain

You gotta treat every day like a holiday

And I'm telling you

That I know some days I'm gonna stumble

And I know the cookie's gonna crumble

And I know that life is gonna suck some days

If you can't say nothing good

Don't say nothing

If you stop to think you could come up with something

That makes you feel so good when times are rough it's ok

I can't complain

Oh oh oh oh oh

Oh oh oh oh oh

Don't let it go to waste

Now I can't complain

I can't complain

Every days too short to let it go to waste

Now I can't complain

I can't complain

You gotta treat every day like a holiday

And I'm telling you

That I know some days I'm gonna stumble

And I know the cookie's gonna crumble

And I know that life is gonna suck some days

But I can't complain

Sentence Prayer

God, give us grace to accept with serenity

the things that cannot be changed,

Courage to change the things

which should be changed,

and the Wisdom to distinguish

the one from the other.

Living one day at a time,

Enjoying one moment at a time,

Accepting hardship as a pathway to peace,

Taking, as Jesus did,

This sinful world as it is,

Not as I would have it,

Trusting that You will make all things right,

If I surrender to Your will,

So that I may be reasonably happy in this life,

And supremely happy with You forever in the next.

Amen.

Reinhold Niebur