You cant take my JOY!

This morning I received a phone call from a friend at work, sadly she had to inform me that my temp job was not up for renewal and my hours for the year are almost up. Some state freeze had been put on hiring the misc. temp jobs that I had. I tried to remain positive and up lifting, I was in shock. I have NEVER lost my job. I have always had a plan, it has always been my choice. After hanging up the phone with her, I text-ed my mom, my mother in law, and my husband. After carefully explaining it to my mom and mother in law I was fine and collective. However the second I had to explain to my husband that by the end of the week I would be jobless I broke. I started balling trying to get it all out, all my worries and fears and hearing his words of reassurance  I was still in shock. 


                                                                              A year ago I started back at school, I had felt God leading me to become a counselor and I am positive that is the direction he wants me to go with my life. Once I graduated Rose and was accepted into UCO I was confident that I was on the right path, God had also provided me with a wonderful job from home, sadly this morning I lost that, and for a second, I let it steal my JOY, my confidence in my Father, and His plan for my life. 


I do not know what is going to become of the following months all I know is that God has made the path of my life known to me and has filled me with Joy being in his presence. As long as I am on the path He has planned for my life, I have nothing to fear. God will provide for me and continue to guide me and fill me with his endless love and mountains of JOY!


“Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices; my body also will rest in hope, because you will not abandon me to the realm of the dead, you will not let your holy one see decay. You have made known to me the paths of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence.” – Acts 2:26-28




This post makes me think of a song a man at my old church sang


"You can't take my JOY, no You cant take my JOY, You didn't give it NO so YOU CANT TAKE IT AWAY"