Joy doesn’t wait for life to behave. It grows when we stop bargaining with the moment and start aligning with purpose, presence, and a love that doesn’t hinge on outcomes. As we close the year, I share a private clearing ritual, the hard truth of my own resistance to joy, and the simple framework that steadied everything: Jesus first, others next, you last.
We start by separating happiness from joy—one reactive and external, the other rooted and internal. From there, I unpack how comparison, old programs, and the modern chase for dopamine keep us restless and disconnected. A ten‑minute pause in the woods became the turning point: sunlight, breath, and quiet brought scattered lessons into focus and revealed how control blocks the flow of grace. We dig into neuroplasticity and the practical work of rewiring: catching the inner controller in the body, choosing micro‑moments of prayer, and returning to the present while doing ordinary things like driving or washing dishes.
You’ll hear candid stories about marriage, purpose, and the call to rebuild connection in “Humanityville”—humans being, not just doing. We explore Shaw’s challenge to spend ourselves on a purpose we recognize as mighty, and why service expands joy without erasing boundaries. Along the way, we talk about clearing the vessel so love, chi, the Holy Spirit’s life, can move through us in daily encounters: a kinder word to a cashier, time given to a partner, attention offered instead of another scroll. Seek first, give freely, care wisely—again and again—until joy becomes the steady current under everything.
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