Joy! Revelations is a little scary.

Christmas Day.  19 Days No Alcohol, No Weed and No Gambling.

Reading Revelations created a little bit of what I'm going to call "healthy" fear.  There are some mighty and violent times foretold in Revelations.  It is a bit scary.  So last night after reading Revelations I grabbed a pamphlet on salvation and looked up some passages on accepting Jesus.  Today, Christmas, I wanted to look up a couple on Joy.

Luke 2:10-11  But the angel said to them, "Do not be afraid.  I bring you good news of great JOY that will be for all the people.  Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is Christ the Lord. - NIV

Gal 5:22-23  But the fruit of the Spirit is love, JOY, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. - NIV

Not really feeling tempted to smoke, drink or gamble today.  Peaceful.  Lazy.  Not sure what to call it.  Calm.  Do want to be Joyful when I'm around other people.  Talk to other people, even Christians and you can hear it in their voices that they just aren't that happy.  Yes times are difficult.  I do think I have a choice to be greeatful for the things I do have and not focus on what I don't have.  I have a Scooter, so much better than walking.  Fun to drive.  Puts me outside without windows so I can see everything around me.  I don't have a car.  Well I can rent one sometimes and really get out to a lot of places and stock up on things to sell.  Economically it makes sense.  My Scooter is bought and paid for so no monthly payments.  Insurance is paid for an entire year and is very inexpensive.  It gets great gas mileage.  It works.  Sure I'm a bit of a dork, but I did find a Harley Davidson Ad for their Topper Scooter in 1962.  So even Harley made scooters! 

Joy.