Description
Does joy just seem too difficult to come by these days? Does it seem irresponsible or na?ve? Maybe you dont feel like you can be joyful, dont know how to, or dont deserve to?
In this collection of short essays on defiant joy, Shemaiah Gonzalez reflects on how she gradually learned to see joy not as an indulgence but as a necessitya way of life and the fruit of faith. But her journey to joy was long. It had been so absent throughout much of her life that it felt foreign at first.
Through her own stories, Gonzalez discovers along with you how joy is the fruit of knowing God. Like God, once you start looking for joy, you might start finding it everywhere. Like God, sometimes it initially feels unsafe.
Perhaps these stories, of finding joy in laundry and Van Goghs paintings of sunflowers, in daydreaming, and even in the darkest of places, will allow you to see life anew. Perhaps you will, like me, no longer wait for the big things to happen but will find there is abundance today. Each day holds joy in the mundane and the magnificentwe just need to learn to see.
Over the course of these 37 essays, Gonzalez, vulnerable and lively, will draw you into a new way of seeing that will revolutionize your everyday. Its time to claim Gods goodness and share it with abandon, not in spite of the brokenness of the world, but because of it.
Its time to live joyously.
Author: Shemaiah Gonzalez
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 04/22/2025
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 8.38h x 5.50w x 0.47d
ISBN: 9780310163176
Language: English
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