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What beautiful words.
Prayer.
Strength.
Love.
And for these to all be connected by joy.
Something that seems so simple but yet is so very profound. 
For without joy what is life?
Just an existence.
Empty and absent. 

As I seek joy in 2016 I am challenging myself to find joy in all things on an even deeper level. 
To not let a single moment pass by me without capturing the joy of that moment. 
Even in the seemingly mundane or unpleasant. 
There is something good in all things if only we choose to see it. 

My joy is my own. 
It is no one else's to take. 
But it is mine to freely give. 

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