Category Archives: Life
"…stop accumulating…"
How did they do it?
Bloom Where You’re Planted!
Thejoyfulnest is 2!!
It’s true! I have been officially blogging for 2 years!
It has been a wonderful thing!
What has been my goal for the past two years?
- To have a joyful and happy place for people to visit!
- To write fun and interesting stories about life and family?
- To be informative about how to get started doing “Family History!”
- To make a history of my family and my darling missionaries!
- To tell the world that I believe that life is wonderful, and challenging, and if we “just keep swimming” it will be great!
My goals for the future of thejoyfulnest?
More of the same! I will hope for a few more visits and new friends!
Love, Joy
The "Grapefruit Poem"
I am so thankful for Gratitude!
A lot of us don’t talk much about gratitude when it’s not November, but hopefully we express it everyday to Father in Heaven. I choose to “receive all things with thankfulness“. I am a work in progress though. I found a wonderful post about raising grateful children, that I wanted to share. Ann Voskamp at “a holy experience” posted it and you can read about it here! What a great idea! Teach children while their young to be grateful, and I’ll bet they grow up to be grateful adults. I think the world could use as many grateful adults as possible. I am going to do this with my daughter Emily. She’s the only one home now, but I think if we do it together and invite my darlin, her dad, there will be so much gratitude in our home, that it will be bulging at the seams! (does a house have seams?) Anyway, it will be a great experience! I know it! Let’s all be more grateful!!
Spring???
God Is Everywhere!
-Author Unknown
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I have been thinking about the beauty of this world and how grateful I am that God blessed us with such a beautiful place to learn and grow. What we do with our life is so important, the choices we make, the things we accomplish with the time we have been given, the legacy we leave for our children. Others may not worry so much about what they do, or who it affects, but we can still choose to be amazing. I know our Father in Heaven is everywhere! I thank God for life, for this wonderful world we are so blessed to live in, and for the opportunity to learn and grow and to work on becoming what He wants me to be.
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Be strong and of good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.
Be sure to pause the music at the
bottom so you can hear Louis.


