Jacque Watkins

finding grace through the mud

My Weekend Wish For You {Together with Joy and Laughter and Love}

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Proverbs 17:22 (ESV)
A joyful heart is good medicine,
but a crushed spirit  dries up the bones.
 

Joy can be contagious, and laughter the best medicine. We weren’t created to live life alone, and our hearts are happier and our lives more full when we live life together … when we let go of our inhibitions and live in the now—talking and laughing and embracing just because we can.

I used to think I should be content just being with God—that even if I didn’t have others close, that He should be enough. And as noble as that was, I think I was mistaken.

We need each other, and He created us for connection, to love and be loved.

We need touch and embracing and face to face talking.

And God delights to give us one another. He wants us to love like He does. While we’re together He wants us to practice becoming like Him, and He wants us to laugh. Because He knew it was like medicine to our hearts.

And so today, may you be with those you love.

May you laugh harder, linger longer, and love deeper than you usually do.

May you make that call or write that letter.

May your day be full of giving and receiving, of letting go of inhibitions and filling up with friendship.

And may you spread joy and laughter wherever you are … the kind that’s only possible when we’re together.

 

 

How are you planning to seize your moments this weekend?

How does laughter heal you?

 

I’m joining Lisa-Jo, over at her site today, to take five minutes and just write without worrying if it’s just right or not. The challenge is to write for 5 minutes flat with no editing, tweaking or self critiquing, with the prompt she gives. And today, her prompt:

Together…
*Also linking with Pieces of Amy and Thought Provoking Thursday

 

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Comments

  2. adriana says

    This is very inspiring. Sometimes we forget how powerful simple things like “touching and embracing” can be.

  4. Tammy Perlmutter says

    I did write a letter this weekend and it started an amazingly candid and healing conversation. I’m going to do some lingering with friends and family and hopefully there will be chocolate in there somewhere.

  5. Sharita says

    Your pictures made my heart smile! And I know that we are now on the other side of the weekend… but I recharged my heart/soul/mind by spending some time with Jesus (sans technology) in a cabin in the woods on a mini-sabbatical.

    I am able to smile and do His work cheerfully because of it! Thanks for these thoughts, Jacque!

  7. Shell @2BeStill says

    What a beautiful blessing! You’ve inspired me. So happy that my plans for today include lots of time to linger with those I love.

    Thanks for stopping by and linking up at Thought provoking Thursday. 🙂

  8. Shelly Miller says

    Thanks for this. I do have a luncheon with women today, and look foward to laughing and conversing and just being with other women, even when its easier to just stay comfortable at home.