ebullience

Ebullience is the quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts or feelings. This driving energy and enthusiasm is a cherished characteristic much needed in a world of doom and gloom - at least these days it seems.

Sure you say, that’s easy for you, but not for me. Apparently every household is different for sure, but there is an old Indian proverb that says everyone is a house with four rooms: mental, physical, emotional and spiritual. Because most of us tend to live in one room most of the time, the air gets stuffy. We need to go into every room, every day to complete our persona and freshen things up. What a better way than to find that enthusiastic thought!

This month is Mental Health Awareness. I recently posted comments that read: Health does not always come from medicine. Most of the time, it comes from peace of mind, peace in the heart, peace in the soul. It comes from laughter and love. And yet it seems, that we can get drawn into, sucked along, and pounded down from negative energy. My friends and I are completing a six-week Wellness Incentive. Our five areas we want to focus on are: Love, play, work, sleep and eating. What does that look like in your life?

We continue walking about telling everyone we are fine - when in fact we are not. Matthew West recently wrote a song entitled, Truth Be Told. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OLGUW1VHLY

“I wrote ‘Truth Be Told’ because I don’t want to be a professional Christian anymore. I wanna be the first person who says ‘You know what? I’ve got some messes and I’m going to dare to believe that there’s a God who loves me anyway. And I’m going to dare to believe that there’s some other Christians who would love me anyway even if they knew that I was less than perfect.’ So I’m putting it out there, truth be told and I hope you will too. Be honest, be vulnerable and trust that the Lord is never going to leave your side.” – Matthew West

I pray that from getting out of bed in the morning, finding joy in the little moments during the day, until you lay your head to rest, that will never fail to fill your life with energy, ebullience and joy so that you will be filled with wonder, peace, love and laughter.

“For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 8:35-38