Keeping Joy

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squarepeg wrote:

Glad you are here. This is a wonderful group of people.

Thank you! It is a great collection of people here- exactly why I finally got brave enough to post. Thanks for the warm welcome, we seem to have a lot in common!

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Roy wrote:

The most frustrating sacrifices are the ones that do not seem to benefit anybody but are seen as good for us to help us learn to make sacrifices. :crazy:

Yes! I hate the backwards justifications for these sacrifices, too. Did I learn from this negative experience? Yes, but me learning from it does not make it okay.

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BeJoyful wrote:

Yes! I hate the backwards justifications for these sacrifices, too. Did I learn from this negative experience? Yes, but me learning from it does not make it okay.

I usually mentally play Devil’s Advocate these days and wind up thinking, “Yes, I learned from this experience – but I am pretty sure the lesson I learned is not the intended lesson”.

[Anonymous]

AmyJ wrote:

I usually mentally play Devil’s Advocate these days and wind up thinking, “Yes, I learned from this experience – but I am pretty sure the lesson I learned is not the intended lesson”.

It took me a while to acknowledge any lesson learned instead of just being mad at the situation.

Now I’m trying to focus on the positive without being blind to the negative so that there’s room for change when there’s an opportunity for it.

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[Anonymous]

You got it. I got on the joy principle a couple years ago. I realized that happiness is the object of our existence. People are that they might have joy. So, all my interactions with the church tend to be aimed at keeping joy and happiness as the forefront. A lot of stuff the church wanted me to do for years was misery inducing. Callings were misery inducing. Moving was misery inducing. Driving across town to set up chairs was misery inducing.

I do what makes me happy, and sometimes that involves serving other people in ways the church wants. There has to be overlap. I have a healthy distance from it now…keep up with the Joy litmus test when asked to do something at church….that way, so far, has brought me happiness.

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