Deriving Joy

Sometimes insight sort of lands in your lap.

This summer, I am a nanny for two adorable children.

Perhaps, it was as I cleaned their playroom and the four year old said to me, "Now this is clean enough for Justin Bieber to arrive," and I couldn't help but laugh! Or when I took her to the park and she quickly found a new friend whom she aptly named, "Shark Boy." Then it occurred to me:

Blessed are the pure in heart. What joy is mine, if my perspective is refined. I remembered a prophesy I had received when I was 14 years old, that I would become a "child bride." Unashamedly childlike!

"Life gets more exciting with every passing day."

Isn't it the truth? How blessed are we, to dance through the trials of life as the beloved children of God. Playfulness and joy at our core, love as our treasure. Ministers of reconciliation in a strange generation. "If we are among the very young at heart."

"If I live to be 105, look at ALL I WILL HAVE DERIVED, OUT OF BEING ALIVE...if I am among the very young at heart."

Life givers. HERE WE ARE. Deriving Joy!

"Young at Heart" Frank Sinatra

Fairy tales can come true
It could happen to you if you're young at heart
For it's hard, you will find
To be narrow of mind if you're young at heart

You can go to extremes with impossible schemes
You can laugh while your dreams fall apart at the seams
And life gets more exciting with each passing day
And love is either in your heart or it's on it's way

Don't you know that it's worth
Every treasure on earth to be young at heart
For as rich as you are
It's much better by far to be young at heart

And if you should survive to a hundred and five
Look at all you'll derive out of being alive
And here is the best part, you have a head start
If you are among the very young at heart