It’s once again time for the One Word at a Time Blog Carnival. Our topic/word is Joy.
The link widget will be up and running later tonight. As always, I’m excited to read your great thoughts and stories.
For general information, click here: Carnivals. If you have further questions, please feel free to ask.
Upcoming dates/words:
May 4 – Joy
May 18 – Grace
We’re at the end of our current calendar. If you have suggestions for future words/topics, please leave them in the comment section. Peter and I will come up with a new list of dates/words, and get it posted soon.
See you at the carnival.
“Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.” ~ Mother Teresa
Here are words that have been suggested:
resilience, healing, acceptance, passion, listening, praying, refuge, ego, stillness, presence, jubilation, fate, growth, emptiness, openness, awakening, being, service, seeing, compassion, sacrifice, brokenness, humility, reflection, strength, reconciliation, justice, belly-dancing, supper, bugs, cars, sunglasses, rocks, hair, cooking, mail, money, flowers, hands, music, babies, hats, smiles, pets, feet, water, rain, storms, hail, cats, breath, dogs, soap, wisdom, revive, word, wonder, laughter, fruit, flowers, summer, vegetables, parents, children, books, treasure, youth, aging, homelessness, bullying, hope, honor, purity, loyalty, integrity and gratitude.
This was another suggestion:
· THE Lord is my shepherd.
· The LORD is my shepherd.
· The Lord IS my shepherd.
· The Lord is MY shepherd.
· The Lord is my SHEPHERD.
If you read these out loud and emphasize the capitalized word, each assumes a slightly different meaning. Some other possible phrases:
JESUS LOVES ME — WE WILL SERVE THE LORD
Thanks for stopping by and sharing your thoughts.
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Hahaha! What a great list. At first the hair, cats, soap – things just had me laughing, but then I realized, it would be fun to do some random words like that. I TOTALLY vote for doing that. We’ve done serious words for the last what, 8 months?
I’m good with all of those…. probably
How about Forgiveness?
I’m thinking that belly-dancing one would have to involve a story of Herod’s step-daughter …