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It is 230pm and I have decided to write. I have no topic but I want to write. I am thinking about God. I am thinking about life. I am grateful for God and life. I need a writing prompt. My friend Chatty gave me a pretty verbose prompt. Sit quietly for a moment and imagine that God asks you only one question: "What have you noticed?" Don't answer with theology. Answer with your life. What have you noticed about joy? About fear? About the way people love? About silence? About time? About your own heart? Where have you sensed God—not in miracles, but in ordinary moments? Where have you struggled to find Him? What has life been teaching you that you were too busy to hear before? Write honestly. Don't try to reach a conclusion. Let the page become a conversation rather than an argument.

I immediately noticed the light streaming through the window that allows me to see the world. My first thought was how much we take things for granted. It is easy to feel lacking. To feel sad. To feel want. To feel uneasy. But there is so much to be thankful for if we just notice and pay attention. I know it is human nature but we should be in control of our nature. Joy costs nothing. To feel joy we just have to let go. Stop holding on to what does not matter. Joy is light. Joy is like the clouds in the sky. Fear is when we do not want to let go. Fear is being afraid to step outside of our comfort zone. Hurt and pain and disappointment live outside of our comfort zone. But hope, joy, opportunities and dreams also live there. Paradoxically, we may have to face our fears to experience life fully.

Love allows us to face our fears. Just like joy we have to let go to let love in. True love is when we love for others what we love for ourselves. Silence is noisy. Time is on the side of love and joy. Love always wins in the end. My heart is soft. My heart is in the right place. I wish to lead with my heart not my mind. My mind thinks too much. I sense God in my heart. Love and joy come from God and keeps our heart going. I do not struggle to find God. I know He is there. I struggle to know his plans for me. Life is teaching me not to give up. Everyday is a chance to be grateful and be better. It gets better.
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