Are you sitting in suffering? Choose joy.

So often, we attract what is familiar, pain. Sometimes we sit there too long, because it’s comfortable. We are used to being passed over, silenced or suffering. What if you used every moment to heat God? What if you counted your joys? What if you stopped waiting for the shoe to drop and started living?

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