Sometimes you chase joy, and sometimes it chases you.  The key is sitting still long enough to be caught. If you are like me, you might have to drive 1,000 miles and park yourself on a porch in the middle of a cornfield with zero smart phone coverage for it to be a fair catch. If you throw in some ice cream, a few hummingbirds, and a summer sweaty kid or two, your heart just might sing. Mine did.

The Joy Dare

565. Lightning bugs caught.

566. Humminbirds

567. Porch sitting.

568. Aunts.

569. 2 Cor. 2:14 – we are being led in victory.

570. Borrowing swimming pools in 105 degree heat.

571. Cupcake class

572. Cousins

573. Birds singing in the morning.

574. Catching up.

575. Living slow.

576. Picking green beans

577. Popsicles dripping all over hot sweaty cheeks.

578. Kick ball.

579. Panera with Pangie.

580. Visiting with grandpa

581. Nobel Romans Pizza

582. My kids in a giant toilet

583. Zaharikos

584. Climbing high.

585. Remembering when

586. Celebrating 50 years of marriage.

587. Stories

588. Purple rain boots and sundresses

589. Coloring with grandma at the dining room table.

590. More ice cream than should be allowed.

591. Sweet girls who don’t want to leave.

592. Driving. Talking. Laughing.

593. Coming home.

594. Getting unpacked.

595. Being home and having nowhere to go.

596. Pointe Shoes

597. Learning new songs.

598. Big girl bed time.

599. God is for you.

600. The flawless Word of God, Proverbs 30:5

601. My Secret Keeper Girl in training.

602. Audtitions

603. Sunday Mornings

604. Safety in a crazy rain storm.

605. Bible in 90 days with friends.

606. Forts.

607. Strawberry Banana smoothies.

608. Hope is not about me having enough, it is about the fact that He is enough.