“Finding a Joy moment in the unexpected,” isn’t a popular subject right now, with the Covid-19 crisis, but maybe this blog is for just one person to be encouraged. So, on this beautiful first full day of Spring, I took this long walk in the woods and made my kids go. 😊 They wanted to turn back after awhile but I decided to continue to walk. Then I have to be honest, I was really questioning my whole having “Joy” ability. In the middle of my walk, my son, who has his 22nd birthday today, texted me and was feeling sad. It started me on this journey opposite of joy…I started thinking all that was lost: My job with Lancaster Living that I had loved, my daughter’s senior year, the worry for my kids and their college classes, my fiancé’s businesses, he spent a life time creating and all of his employees, my future step kids, all those who have lost love ones world wide, the burdens on our leaders,(I wouldn’t want that burden!) my church home, the rest of my family and friends, the stress of being a single mom and all the fear people have promoted around this virus with “worse case scenarios”…and to be honest, It all just seemed too much. So, I stopped for a moment in the woods. All I could hear was the wind and birds, I tried to remember my “before Covid-19” world. All of this time, I haven’t shed many tears over this. But I did now. And I felt bad for crying because I know others have lost way more than I have. I continued in the woods and came upon this log that had fallen. In the middle of this 100 acres with no houses around, stood this little daffodil that had survived being crushed by this fallen log. I felt my heart explode with joy because it was so unexpected. Did this change my situation? No, but I know somehow, maybe all of us can find one “Joy moment” in the unexpected.
A woman who chose joy 