This past weekend we had the joy of hosting my best friend, Becca. We much anticipated her visit, the inaugural trip for my best friend to see me in Denver. There is so much pressure leading up to a weekend visit, everyone with their own expectations and desires for packing in as much as possible into a few short days. We did have a blast. We spent good time in my neighborhood, went for a bike ride, shopped, ate swedish meatballs at ikea (you know, the typical Denver visit)...and mostly just enjoyed each others company.
It's difficult, though, being so far away from the one's you love. You never know how you are going to act when you know they will leave again. Separation is always at the end. All this to say, this season of life is a new one- which means both good & hard. I am bewildered most days at how I am supposed to be in this season, let alone do all the things I am responsible for (being a wife, starting a ministry, to name a couple). In the midst of all these things, there is one thing I know.
The photo above is from a concert we went to on Friday night, Page CXVI. They have re-written music to old hymns, inviting us into breathtaking worship. Tifah, singer & pianist, told of us of the season of life in which she re-did the song "Joy"...the night her father died from cancer, so snuck down to her piano to play melancholy keys and begun to sing. The words that spilled from her lips were these, "I've got the joy, joy, joy, joy, down in my heart. Down in my heart." Her story & the melody struck me. Haunted, even.
To be in different seasons of loss, separation, great and small, and to find joy. That is Christ.
I laugh deep in this picture for joy. We have found joy in Christ.
If you would like to check out Page CXVI's music, I would encourage you to.
Page CXVI
or watch Tifah & Page CXVI sing JOY here:
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